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Six cases brought against Westpac now finalised

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2022
... superannuation case involving members being charged premiums that included commissions and some paying commissions to financial advisers through their premiums despite commissions having been banned. This impacted just shy of 10,000 members. Another ...

BT Panorama sees SMSF growth

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2022
... of March end. It's more than doubled year on year, having sat at $11.93 billion in March 2021. The number of financial advisers using BT Panorama's digital consent increased over five times in the quarter compared to the prior corresponding period, with ...

Vanguard overhauls distribution leadership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2022
... strategic growth and change as we continue to build out our service offering for individual investors and the financial advisers who serve them," Shrimski said. Vanguard announced in October 2020 that it would hand back all institutional mandates, also ...

3000 advisers left industry last year

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2022
More than 3000 financial advisers left the industry in the last 12 months, according to Rainmaker's most recent analysis of the ASIC Financial Adviser Register. The number of ASIC-registered financial advisers decreased 15% through the 12 months to ...

Former ANZ Australia head in new role

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2022
... "The investment and wealth management markets are becoming increasingly sophisticated, with a new breed of financial advisers and new regulatory framework creating opportunities that has led to the establishment of Amplifi Group." "That we have attracted ...

BetaShares opens Perth office, hires

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2022
... allows us to expand our presence in Western Australia by adding a dedicated resource for the more than 1,700 financial advisers in that state." Prowse shared his excitement at joining BetaShares. "I'm excited to join one of Australia's largest, experienced ...

BT Funds Management fined $20m

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2022
... Financial Advice reforms in 2013. Further, members were also changed commissions via their premiums that went to financial advisers, event where they had elected to have the financial adviser component removed from their account. This case was one of ...

COVID-19 financial advice relief to be repealed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2022
... relief measures that were initially introduced in April 2020. The central tenants of these reliefs allowed financial advisers to provide a Record of Advice, rather than a Statement of Advice, to existing clients requiring financial advice due to pandemic ...

Mason Stevens names chief investment officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2022
... Investment Group. In the new role, Fernley will lead the Mason Stevens' asset management specialists, and help financial advisers and managers develop models, and facilitate unique platform investment opportunities such as IPOs, capital raises and ...

ASIC releases latest adviser exam results

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2022
Just 32% of the financial advisers that sat the exam in February have passed. Releasing the results of the February exam on Friday, ASIC said 32.4% or 108 of the 333 advisers in the sitting were successful. Of the February candidates, 73% were sitting ...