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Advice group chief fakes exam result, banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023
... and provided the altered document to ASIC. During the nine months that followed, Karamian provided personal advice to 11 retail clients when he was not authorised to do so. Karamian was deemed incompetent and not a fit and proper person to provide financial ...

GBST revamps wealth platform, unveils corporate rebrand

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2023
... trusts, personal pensions, and annuities. "We have a diversity of potential client opportunities across wealth managers, retail investment platforms and superannuation managers seeking tax, and digital solutions," he added. In Australia, GBST serves ...

QIC files plans for $750m sustainable development

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2023
... proposed 40-story building at 101 Albert Street that combines commuter amenities and services, with a mix of commercial, retail, and residential spaces, with flexible configurations designed to suit a range of tenants. The development will comprise approximately ...

First Super awards ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2023
First Super has appointed IFM Investors to manage a new indexed international equities strategy with a focus on governance and labour rights. The new strategy is designed to provide exposure to a diversified portfolio of global (ex-Australia) publicly ...

ASIC issues more interim stop orders

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2023
... from offering, issuing, or giving a product disclosure statement (PDS) and to stop it from providing general advice to retail clients in relation to SYEP Derivatives. The watchdog was concerned the TMD inappropriately included investors whose objective ...

FPA voices concern on proposed CSLR, FAR laws

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2023
... implications for members. "An effective CSLR will promote trust in financial advice among consumers - by ensuring that if retail consumers have lost money due to poor advice, there is a compensation mechanism available," FPA chief executive Sarah Abood ...

Dodgy advice bill nears $5bn: ASIC

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2023
... supervised their financial advisers to identify and deal with non-compliant advice. For example, personal advice provided to a retail client by an adviser who did not comply with the relevant conduct obligations in the Corporations Act, such as the obligations ...

Senate inquiry to scrutinise proposed franking credit rules

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023
... principle, it criticised the legislation's retrospective nature, which it deemed unreasonable and unfair to expect retail shareholders to anticipate. The ASA also questioned the broadness and subjectivity of the tests used to determine which transactions ...

Review of managed investment schemes kicks off

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023
... the framework is fit-for-purpose, specifically looking at whether the thresholds that determine whether an investor is a retail or wholesale client remain appropriate; whether certain MIS investments should be able to be marketed and sold to retail investors ...

We are closer to a pause: Lowe

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2023
... our next board meeting, we will have important data on employment, another monthly inflation indicator, more detail on retail spending and the business survey." "If collectively they suggest that the right thing is to pause, then we will do that. But ...