Friday, April 19, 2024

Compliance & regulation

Top Tips for Level 5 Distance Learning

Professional IQ College has shared their top tips for advisers looking to complete their Level 5 Certificate through distance learning. Adviser professional development expert and...

Licensing Fees Confirmed, Estimated 10% Drop in Advisers Under FSLAA

The Government has announced that the new regime for financial advice will come into force in June 2020, with the exact date to be...

News in Brief

Financial Advice NZ Reveals 10 Business Partners  Financial Advice New Zealand has announced the names of its ten new Business Partners for its partnership programme...

Company Fined in First FMA Case of Company Abuse of the FSPR

Morgan DeVere Corporate Finance has been fined $40,000 following its conviction at the Wellington District Court on two charges of breaching the Financial Services...

New Australian Research Supports Retention of Risk Commissions

Australian insurer, ClearView, has released new research which reveals that any additional changes to adviser remuneration will neither lift advice quality nor result in...

Dunedin AFA Investigated By SFO

The Serious Fraud Office, assisted by the Financial Markets Authority, executed search warrants on the 23 May in relation to an investigation of Dunedin-based...

Service Provider Rebrands to Guide Advice Firms Through New Regime 

Hawke’s Bay-based service provider, Boutique Advisers Alliance, has rebranded to Finzo, an integrated financial solutions provider aiming to improve service delivery, efficiency and client...

Record Keeping Still Vital Under New Code

Adviser Business Compliance Director, Gavin Austin, says record-keeping is still integral to an advice business even though the newly approved Code of Professional Conduct...

Poll Results – Mixed Feelings on the Code 

Last week we asked whether you supported the newly approved Code of Professional Conduct for Financial Advice Services and the results were quite surprising. At...