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Centrepoint in talks to build ex-insto advice network

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
More advice practices are looking to depart institutionally-aligned dealer groups and join independent licensees, according to Centrepoint Alliance. As Centrepoint managing director John de Zwart put it in a statement, "The days of adviser practices ...

ASIC financial services enforcements down 10%

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... enforcement report that it intends to develop a regulatory guide on remediation programs by Australian financial services licensees. "We want to ensure that if an AFS licensee needs to provide remediation, they do so in a way that is fair, honest and ...

ASFA concerned about board governance timeline

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2015
... boards. In a letter to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), the association has asked that all RSE licensees be given until 31 December 2016 to prepare their transition plan. ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos said it was the association's ...

Social adviser implores positivity for planners

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2015
... about the public perception of financial advice and financial planning and yet planners themselves leave it to their licensees, to the media, to regulators to spread the message of what real advice does for people," Gardner said in his post. "Right now ...

IOOF merges two licences

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... spokesperson added. Plan B's roughly 12 planners will move to Shadforth following a six-month plan to merge the two licensees. According to Rainmaker data, IOOF employed 529 advisers through 14 groups as at December 2014. As per its website, there are ...

IFAs to benefit from ASIC SME focus

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... that ASIC's 2013-2014 annual report demonstrates a steady year-on-year increase in new Australian Financial Services Licensees (AFSLs), improvements to SME registration services will impact the growing number of advisers looking to start their own business. ...

ASIC bans former risk adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... Macquarie confirmed it would be closing the dealer group and five associated advisers would be transitioning to other licensees outside of Macquarie's financial advice business. Brian Farber provided life insurance advice at the dealer group from December ...

HUB24 doubled FUA in 2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... platform offerings and licensee white label products. Half of total net inflows for the quarter were from new advisers and licensees introduced to the platform over the past 18 months, including Paragem. The platform also completed the transfer of a ...

Magellan hires key account manager from Fidelity

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... from Fidelity Worldwide Investment, where he was national account manager. Jordan has worked with financial planning licensees and practitioners for the last three years. At Magellan he will be responsible for the distribution of the manager's Australian ...

NAB Wealth appoints head of partnerships

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... head of partnerships development. James Meade, who has headed the two National Australia Bank (NAB) financial planning licensees, will now work on improving NAB's understanding of customer needs and attitudes towards financial advice. Meade will report ...