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Trio-linked fund manager jailed for 25 months

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
An investment manager with links to Trio Capital has been sentenced to 25 months in prison for making false statements while managing the ARP Growth Fund (ARP). Tony Maher, previously known as Paul Gresham, made the false statements over a two-year ...

Netwealth unveils key changes to advice business

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
Netwealth Advice Group is making key changes to its leadership after Pathaway Licensee Services general manager left to pursue another opportunity. Kate Humphries has been the general manager of netwealth-owned Pathway Licensee Services for two and ...

ASIC changes depend on the government: Medcraft

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
Changes to the Australian Securities and Investments Committee (ASIC) depend on the level of resilience that the government wants from the financial services regulator, ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft said. Medcraft spoke at a media conference the day after ...

Senate report, a turning point for advice industry

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... need to move from." The report requested the government extend ASIC powers so it could immediately suspend a financial planner if there was suspicion that the adviser "engaged in egregious misconduct causing widespread harm to clients." It also asked ...

Senate inquiry reccommends Royal Commission into CBA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
The Senate Economics Committee has recommended that the government establish an independent inquiry in the form of a judicial inquiry or a Royal Commission to examine the cases of adviser misconduct within the Commonwealth Bank financial planning businesses. ...

Treasury contemplates TASA relief for experienced advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
Financial planners who have had six years of experience over the past eight and belong to a professional association will not have to meet the new Tax Agents Services Act 2009 (TASA) requirements for advisers, Treasury said. The government has issued ...

Health and wealth go hand in hand: Survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... meet their financial and fitness wishlist can be the right tonic for their long-term financial ails. Senior financial planner Michal Bodi from Sydney Financial Planning is a big fan of behavioural finance. He says clients are more likely to sort out ...

Banks suspected of pocketing grandfathered commissions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... substance behind ISA's warnings, particularly when grandfathered commissions continue to be paid after the relevant financial planner has left the dealer group. Financial Standard understands that this is common practice among the major dealer groups ...

Young adviser wins first Gwen Fletcher Memorial Award

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... Australia (FPA) has awarded a young financial adviser the inaugural Gwen Fletcher Memorial Award. Dixon Advisory financial planner Erin Shields took out the award for being the highest achieving student in last semester's Certified Financial Planner ...

Ripoll labels Cormann's FoFA changes "a stunt"

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
"What a stunt" was Labor MP Bernie Ripoll's first reaction to the government's announcement that it will ban commissions on general advice. "Commissions have already been banned. By Labor," Ripoll said on Twitter. "Liberals say they will ban commissions ...