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ASIC orders additional AFSL conditions on Sydney firm

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has imposed additional licence conditions on the Australian financial services licence (AFSL) of a Sydney-based firm. ASIC identified concerns about the adequacy of Roco International's market ...

Global firm mulls Aussie advice market

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013
Global consultancy and risk adviser firm Willis Group has set up a small financial planning business in Australia and is considering the possibility of expanding. The firm's Employee Benefits division advises companies on group insurance for its employees ...

Trading platform bids to raise industry transparency standards

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2013
A new initiative calling on all financial services firms to boost transparency has been launched by online trading specialist Saxo Capital Markets Australia (Saxo). Saxo will send a quarterly review to all its clients to check between clients' trading ...

Accountants ready to enter SMSF space, despite costs

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2013

AFS advisers question payment model

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013
Former AFS Group advisers are questioning the method through which advisers get paid after a Court ruling has made it unlikely that they will receive the money they are owed by the dealer group. In the financial advice space, dealer groups usually set ...

AFS advisers denied access to brokerage account

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
The Federal Court of Australia has denied access by former Australian Financial Services Group (AFS) advisers to the money in a brokerage account of the group, which would pay for some of the money owed to advisers. The account holds about $1.9 million ...

Accountants ready to access HUB24 platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013
Members of the National Tax Accountants Association (NTAA) will be able to access HUB24 after the organisation reached an agreement with the platform provider. HUB24 parent company Investorfirst has signed a platform distribution agreement with InterPrac ...

Independent advisers more loyal to their licensees

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
Independent advisers have more loyalty towards their own dealer groups than those who belong to an institutionally-owned adviser group. A recent Net Promoter Scores (NPS) research done with over 1,000 advisers showed that those who belong to independent ...

ASIC bans broker for deceptive conduct

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a Perth-based insurance broker after it found he had engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct. ASIC found that John Andrew Barr, of Darlington, Western Australia ...

NTAA keen to establish referral relations with advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
The National Tax Accountants Association (NTAA) said that the majority of its members want to continue to provide advice to self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF), and added that they are keen on establishing referral relations with financial planners. ...