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Macquarie to close Risk Advice Specialists

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... Macquarie AFSL. Financial Standard understands that the five Risk Advice Specialists planners will transition to other licensees outside of Macquarie's financial advice business. Risk Advice Specialists was launched in 2012 with six advisers recruited ...

ASIC suspends Dunfo Capital AFSL

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... revoked if Dunfo Capital is able to meet its "legal obligations and licence conditions". "We strongly encourage all licensees to proactively report significant breaches to ASIC within 10 business days, as they are obligated to do," said ASIC Commissioner ...

CBA rolls out IRESS systems to all advice groups

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... Bank's Business and Private Bank. The new agreement will see IRESS tools and systems implemented in all of the group's licensees, including Commonwealth Financial Planning, Bankwest Financial Advice and Financial Wisdom. "This investment in technology ...

MyPlanner launches managed account solution

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... for many financial planners. Some of our planners don't have the time, experience or desire to build portfolios, and licensees don't want the risk and compliance headache associated with inexperienced advisers trying to manage portfolios," MyPlanner ...

XPLAN is top-rated financial planning software

ALEX GAMBOTTO-BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... were Rubik Coin and AdviserNETgain. The report also notes that an increased focus on FoFA compliance has resulted in licensees making better use of the compliance functionality in their planning software. "The use of workflow based compliance benchmarking ...

Advisers scramble to gather ASIC register data

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... register of financial advisers, Veda head of wealth Mark Hoven said. Hoven told Financial Standard that advisers and licensees are currently "collecting all the information they can in the time that is available." The first phase of the Australian Securities ...

Westpac, Count on ASIC radar over complex product advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
Westpac and Commonwealth Bank-owned Count Financial are among the 10 licensees forced to undertake corrective action following concerns by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) concerns about financial advice relating to complex ...

Separate risk advisers from other planners: Synchron

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... products. I do genuinely believe there is a strong case for separating the two," Trapnell said. Trapnell proposed that licensees hold a specialist Australian financial services licence (AFSL) to deal in investment or financial planning advice and a different ...

AdviserLogic launches licensee-to-adviser tech tool

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
Software provider AdviserLogic has launched a tool to connect licensees and advisers more efficiently. The new services include a Licensee Console that allows advisers to create content, update it and automatically make it available to their planners' ...

Managed accounts boost advice business valuations

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... portfolio options (known as separately managed accounts or SMAs), 25% of these options are operated by financial advice licensees, researchers and consultants such as Ibbotson, Morningstar, Charter Financial Planning, Lonsec, Fat Prophets, Three Sixty ...