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Decimal announces key super fund contracts

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... said the super fund's 565,000 members have embraced digital advice. "We have delivered over 23,000 digital Statements of Advice (SOAs) to our members, helping us to lift member engagement and understand and support retirement outcomes," he said. Decimal ...

ASIC bans Perth adviser

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
... his clients' needs, the regulator said. ASIC also found Leake made false and misleading statements in his Statements of Advice (SOAs). He claimed to have considered his clients' circumstances in relation to the waiting periods for income protection policies. ...

Best interest duty failures lead to EU

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... the use of a single fund the firm had a relationship with, HUB24. Further, clients were not provided with statements of advice for the financial product advice they received. In response, HUB24 said it had no commercial arrangements with Orth or Real ...

Increased scrutiny driving regtech need

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... organisations have expanded the capabilities of their Artemis tool to encompass real-time risk detection in statements of advice, providing the ability to upload documents directly into the engine and conduct an immediate compliance check. "We are building ...

Digital advice embraced by all ages: Decimal

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017
... business hours. This said women were most engaged with their super between 10am and midday, completing 482 statements of advice at this time. Men completed 464 SOAs in the same time period. "The insights show that 43% of all logins were by women, 28% ...

MyState advice arm grows

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017
... executive Melos Sulicich said. "Our strengthened financial planning team helped increase revenue from new statements of advice and risk advice, and funds under advice grew from $738 million to $778 million at the end of the year." In contrast however ...

Retail managed accounts option gains traction

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... growth, according to director Neil Shellshear. Investors with a minimum amount of $20,000 receive no-fee Statements of Advice (SOAs) and will be charged based on a management and performance fee only. Depending on an investor's risk profile, options ...

ASIC calls on NAB to improve disclosure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
... products issued by NAB Group-related firms, including MLC-branded and boutique investment manager products. The Statements of Advice and Financial Services Guides provided failed to fully disclose the connection between each customer's adviser, the advice ...

Regulator bans adviser for seven years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
... less his own expenses and to have created insurance application forms, client file notes and profiles and statements of advice containing false information. At the time of the offences Gunner was a representative of GuardianFP. Commenting on the ban ...

Old technology costing advice industry

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2017
... their Excel-based systems into an online application that can automatically generate documents including statements of advice and graphs via their proprietary technology Highlighter. One of the main barriers to taking up new technology, according to ...