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NSW Treasury appoints productivity commissioner

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
A former ATO deputy commissioner and the current chair of Sydney Financial Forum has been appointed a top role at New South Wales Treasury. Joining the NSW Government as its first productivity commissioner is Peter Achterstraat. His mandate is to "bust ...

MGP to expand super solutions, director resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
Managed Accounts Holdings is expanding its superannuation capabilities and is on track to acquire an existing Registrable Superannuation Entity. A non-executive director will also step down from the MGP board. The managed accounts and investment administrator ...

ANZ culls sales incentives for planners

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
ANZ will no longer factor in sales incentives while calculating bonuses for its financial planners and boot them out if they fail an audit twice, the bank announced today. As ANZ attempts to revive its advice business after Royal Commission hearings ...

OneVue appoints new Super Services COO from KPMG

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
OneVue's funds administration arm is welcoming a new chief operating officer. Melissa Gomes joins OneVue from KPMG, where she was associate director of superannuation advisory risk consulting. Prior to that, she held three roles at the Harwood Superannuation ...

CountPlus appoints chief operating officer

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
CountPlus named a new chief operating officer and appointed an advisory firm to assess merger and acquisition opportunities. Mark Chapman is the former chief executive of Bentleys Network. He joined the business advisory, accounting and audit firm about ...

ASIC deregisters 117 SMSF auditors

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
The corporate regulator cancelled the registrations of 117 SMSF auditors after they failed to lodge annual statements. The auditors stripped of their registrations will no longer be able to audit self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs). "Conducting ...

RECAP: Advice in the Royal Commission spotlight (Days 6- 9)

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
In a workweek cut short by a public holiday, the Royal Commission heard evidence which included an AMP adviser identified only as Mr E, whose clients haven't even been informed of his misconduct yet. It also included a high-profile adviser who "most ...

Advisers react to Royal Commission revelations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
Financial advisers are struggling to comprehend the level of misconduct revealed by the past fortnight's Royal Commission hearings. Will the non-aligned advice space be strengthened by the findings? Or will the vertically integrated model withstand ...

Advice firm impersonated clients

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
A prominent financial adviser conceded a series of phone calls in which a staffer impersonated a client may have been at his direction. Questioned by Senior Counsel Assisting Rowena Orr on Tuesday, Henderson Maxwell chief executive and senior financial ...

AMP kept unsuspecting clients in the dark: RC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
The financial services Royal Commission censored the names of two AMP financial planning clients who currently don't know they are the victims of improper advice provided by an authorised representative. AMP knew as early as March 2017 the husband and ...