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The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) are planning to merge, with the aim of creating “a united voice for ...
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Financial advice firms are 300x more likely to be victims of a cyber attack and should not be complacent, even if they are a small firm, as they are sitting on valuable d...
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Organisations have acknowledged advisers’ concern about achieving nine hours of ethics and professionalism CPD, stating it is “quite a challenge” for both parties to meet...
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Advisers are likely to look towards self-registration with the regulator rather than a licensee model in the future, but self-licensing is not without its pitfalls, accor...
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The Association of Financial Advisers says it has received positive signs from the minister for financial services, Stephen Jones, that he is very willing to help fix the...
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Financial advisers must consider long-term interests and future circumstances when determining the scope of the advice that is going to be offered and should therefore be...
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The financial advice profession needs more certainty on how the Australian Financial Complaints Authority will judge a complaint, says the Association of Financial Planne...
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The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has published its Quality of Advice submission, putting forward several recommendations including the provision of a three-yea...
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The Financial Planning Association of Australia is “very, very hopeful” that it will be able to achieve success in the Quality of Advice review by making a joint submissi...
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Compassion should be given to those advisers who have not yet passed the financial adviser exam, according to the AFA’s Phil Anderson, rather than condemnation....
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The number of financial advisers could fall to 14,000 in the next couple of years, according to AFA President Sam Perera, but the Quality of Advice review could mean impr...
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Being flexible and understanding female staff within an advisory firm can translate into a better relationship with female clients....
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The Association of Financial Advisers has outlined the key levers it will be targeting to reduce regulatory uncertainty in its submission to the Quality of Advice Review....
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The industry watchdog has been forced to step in and mandate changes to disability income insurance in a move designed to protect consumers, writes Nina Hendy. ...
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The solution to the complex and time-consuming Statements of Advice (SoA) lies somewhere between a one-page letter, as prescribed for accountants, and what exists today, ...
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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...