Safeguard client interests and your practice. Navigate ethical dilemmas when advising couples, particularly during conflict and separation.
Financial advisers frequently advise couples and families. As a result, advisers will be confronted with legal and ethical issues associated with advising couples, particularly in the context of family breakdown. Given their position as trusted advisers with unique knowledge of their clients’ assets, advisers can be faced with circumstances that are difficult to navigate, including non-responsive clients, conflicting instructions and conflicting interests.
In this session, Richard Hopkin, Senior Associate at Cowell Clarke Commercial Lawyers, will take advisers through the ethical pitfalls of providing services to couples as clients, including practical tips about what to do when clients’ interests diverge in the course of a relationship breakdown.
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Senior Associate | Cowell Clarke’s Financial Services
Richard Hopkin is a Senior Associate in Cowell Clarke’s Financial Services team. Richard practices predominantly in the area of financial services regulation and compliance across the financial services industry, covering Australian Financial Services (AFS) licensing and compliance, including: AFSL applications and variations, ASIC reporting and enforcement, remediation programs and IDR/AFCA matters. Richard is a key part of Cowell Clarke’s online AFSL compliance portal services. Richard also works on related commercial and corporate projects, including commercial contracts and M&A.
