AFA

Financial planning

AFA chief executive, Brad Fox, has stressed the need for advisers to experiment and share results with their peers to adapt to change and thrive....

Life/Risk

The LIF reforms might boost the capital position of a life insurer but would not increase profits, BTFG said....

Life/Risk

The LICG proposal for a special resolution to force the AFA to oppose the LIF has failed to garner the required support...

Policy & Regulation

Advisers must collectively embrace legislative and regulatory change to cope with an increasingly complex advice world that is no longer about selling insurance....

Financial planning

Brisbane-based GCA Financial adviser, Erin Truscott, has been awarded the AFA Rising Star of the Year award for 2016. ...

Financial planning

The delayed LIF start date of 2018 will allow self-employed advisers more time to prepare their businesses for the significant reduction in initial commissions, the AFA b...

Financial planning

Six finalists for the 2016 AFA Rising Star of the Year Award were today announced by ANZ Wealth and the AFA. ...

Financial planning

The AFA board is telling its members the LICG’s proposed resolution to ensure the AFA opposed the Life Insurance Framework legislation for three years would substantially...

Life/Risk

The Association of Financial Advisers has sought substantial improvements in the Financial Services Council’s Life Insurer Code of Practice....

Financial planning

The AFA has received the required number of forms needed for an extraordinary general meeting....

Editorial

There can be no doubting how many life/risk advisers remain aggrieved by the LIF outcome, but bi-partisan Parliamentary support means there is no unscrambling the omelett...

Life/Risk

Those pushing for an EGM to change the constitution of the Association of Financial Advisers have fallen well short of the requisite five per cent of members....

Policy & Regulation

Sentry Group chief executive, Murray Hills, has urged unity amid continuing ructions over LIF within the AFA....

Policy & Regulation

The Association of Financial Advisers has queried the validity of paperwork supporting calls for an extraordinary general meeting to pursue constitutional change....

Policy & Regulation

Those calling for an extraordinary general meeting of the AFA to change the constitution over LIF have taken to social media to rally support....

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