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The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has hit back at the industry super funds' campaign against adviser fees, saying their approach is simplistic and draws attenti...
Editorial
The Minister for Financial Services, Billl Shorten, knows as well as anyone else in the financial services sector that the IFAAA is a minnow. Thus his recent comments mus...
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is about to launch a special award for female financial advisers, aimed at tackling the gender gap in the industry....
People & Products
In its aim to strengthen its brand, the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has appointed a marketing and strategy manager....
Financial planning
Concerns have been raised about ASIC appearing to unilaterally urge consumers away from asset-based fees....
Editorial
The new lobbying group AusFIN may present a united front for consumer groups and the industry super funds, but Mike Taylor writes that a closer look at its members reveal...
Financial planning
CommInsure and Tower have both been named the winners of the Association of Financial Advisers/Plan for Life 2010 Life Company of the Year Awards....
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has announced a plan that will see its Fellow Chartered Financial Practitioner (FchFP) designation positioned into a pathway t...
Financial planning
Lobby groups with vested interests sparked the endless debate around adviser remuneration, which is clouding the issue of inadequate levels of retirement savings and chro...
Editorial
The Assistant Treasurer, Bill Shorten, faces the prospect of some serious horse-trading in both houses of Parliament to get the financial advice 'opt in' legislation pass...
Editorial
Another round of research aimed at defining the attitudes of financial planners appears to have confirmed the existence of a generational divide on some of the key questi...
Policy & Regulation
The Government has good intentions with the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms, but the advice industry needs to make sure history is not repeated, according to th...
Financial planning
Although most advisers are working to improve the public image of the advice industry, the next generation is in a better position to do so....
Editorial
With draft legislation resulting from the Future of Financial Advice reforms due out within months, Mike Taylor writes that much more is at stake than how financial plann...
Policy & Regulation
One of the unintended consequences of the Government’s Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms may be a shortage of 'generalist' financial planners, according to ...
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
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...