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Financial planning

Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief executive officer Brad Fox has called for a new life insurance awareness campaign after a white paper revealed a huge gap be...

Life/Risk

Some progress appears to be being made towards finding common ground on life/risk sustainability and churn....

Financial planning

Financial advisers should not ignore the value of having soft and sales skills when it comes to servicing their clients, writes Tim Browne. ...

Financial planning

AMP will make it mandatory for nearly 2000 planners to be members of a professional association. ...

Superannuation

Independent planners have been squeezed out of tendering for corporate superannuation - or so it seems for now. ...

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Opposition has confirmed it will back any move by new Treasurer, Chris Bowen, to delay the implementation of FOFA....

Editorial

If one issue has clearly defined the divide which continues to exist between financial planners and accountants, it has been the chequered passage of the Government’s Tax...

Accounting

Accountants accept TASA outcome, saying it is the ultimate outcome rather than the journey that matters. ...

Financial planning

The AFA has partnered with Kaplan Professional to provide formal and practical education to its members....

Financial planning

The Federal Opposition will fight for changes to the TASA timetable in Parliament, but will revisit the issue post-election if the Parliamentary battle fails....

Financial planning

The financial planning industry is not expecting a bipartisan report from the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) reviewing the Tax Agents Services Act (TASA) legislation...

Financial planning

FSC places $1 billion price tag on TASA implementation as PJC weighs competing submissions from accounting and planning industries....

Accounting

Accounting bodies claim Government’s concessions to planners on TASA are a negative outcome for consumers....

Life/Risk

AFA insists any examination of churn and self-regulation must look beyond the adviser channel....

People & Products

The AFA has appointed Deborah Kent to its board as NSW director, replacing Mark Hoskin....

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