One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures.
AFCA remains firm on its stance that industry failures occurring in the financial advice sector are fundamentally an advice issue, rather than a product issue.
The corporate watchdog is suing FIIG Securities for alleged failures in its cyber security measures, describing the matter as a “wake-up call” to all licensees.
Iress has made two appointments to its APAC wealth product and technology teams, one who joins from a superannuation fund and the second from accounting software platform Xero.
Principal Asset Management has appointed a global head of real estate research and strategy.
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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and professionalism”.
Advisers may say they struggle to meet their ethics CPD requirements, but the learnings are paying off as research finds it has helped to reduce adviser misconduct and financial fraud.
Three months on from the first Insignia Financial bid from Bain Capital, what developments have taken place and how have the firm’s shareholders benefitted?
AFCA chief executive, David Locke, has shared a key way for its financial services member firms to reduce the volume of fees paid to the organisation, which it says are “within the control of the member”.
