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Government to pass most FoFA changes through regulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... The government will also make the necessary changes to the FoFA grandfathering provisions to enable advisers to move licensees with their clients whilst continuing to receive grandfathered remuneration. Read all Financial Standard coverage of the FoFA ...

NAB business growth manager joins Fortnum

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... Taylor said. At NAB and MLC, Taylor was responsible for recruiting established practices into MLC's network of aligned licensees. He also helped businesses to develop strategic marketing plans, advice and service offerings, client value propositions ...

Asteron appoints key accounts and group risk manager

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... has appointed a national key accounts and group risk manager responsible for leading the insurer's relationship with licensees. Danier Waller has been appointed to the role and will be reporting to Asteron Life executive manager Mark Vilo. Waller will ...

Queensland advice firm falls foul of regulator

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... did not ensure that authorised representatives were adequately trained and competent to provide financial services. "Licensees must have adequate systems in place to ensure they are fully across the actions of their representatives," ASIC deputy chairman ...

CFS awarded 'Best Platform Overall'

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... a significant amount of change for many advice businesses.A Platform providers are well placed to help advisers and licensees deal with the challenges brought on by these changes and continue supporting them in delivering quality outcomes for their clients," ...

SPAA launches online CPD tool

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... knowledge, location and cost. "We recognise practitioners have a range of obligations to satisfy - from regulators, licensees to professional associations," SPAA head of education Liz Ward said. "The volume of information practitioners must understand ...

Wake-up call for watchdog after inquiry

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... of advice failures, instead of going behind." According to Rantall, this can only be achieved if the regulator, the licensees and the profession work in unison He defended the need to build strong professional standards that allow the regulator to focus ...

ANZ head of aligned licensees leaves, joins van Eyk

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
ANZ Aligned Licensees head of operations has left the group and joined van Eyk Advice as operations manager. Former ANZ exec David Flynn will report to van Eyk director and head of strategy Paul Bray. Flynn will oversee the day-to-day management of ...

Synchron recruits admin staff to cope with adviser demand

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... Simone Ciancio to assist with application processing, registration of product providers and transfer of clients between licensees. Synchron a non-institutionally owned dealer group and has a total of 313 individual authorised representatives across A ...

ASIC eyes fee for service funding model

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
... perform its functions." As an example, ASIC said it costs about $108 million to regulate Australian Financial Services licensees. However, ASIC collects only $3.7 million in registry fees from AFS licensees, approximately 3.5% of the cost of regulation. ...