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The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has warned that the salaried financial advisers of banking institutions may not have to disclose all the influences inducing t...

Financial planning

Money Management’s Financial Planner of the Year award is getting bigger and better every year, with increasing numbers of nominations, finalists and, this year, even jud...

Financial planning

The chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, Senator Grant Chapman, has indicated it may re-examine the issue of risk product di...

Financial planning

Risk selling is about selling relationships, not products. Julie Bennett and Freya Purnell report....

Financial planning

The ongoing legacy of the HIH Insurance collapse in Australia is the cost and availability of professional indemnity insurance. Mike Taylor reports....

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is seeking direction from Government, and in turn the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, on guarantees to prote...

Financial planning

Victorian-based adviser Bernie Toohey has been named the inaugural ‘Zurich Adviser of the Year’, by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and Zurich Financial Servi...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) officially launched its new professional designations yesterday at the AFA National Conference in Queensland....

Life/Risk

The Australian insurance industry must focus on product manufacture and marketing as too many people are both uninsured and under-insured, according to AXA’s financial pr...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has reacted to industry criticism of the findings of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services ...

Life/Risk

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) have hit out at comments by the Australian Consumers’ Association (ACA) financial services senior policy officer Catherine Wol...

Financial planning

As the call for professional standards echoes around Asia, various industry bodies are lining up for a piece of the action. Ben Abbott reports....

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has finally settled on a professional designation for its members, registering the Authorised Financial Adviser Australia (AFA...

Financial planning

The Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners (AIOFP) has released a position paper slamming the industry over conflicts of interest and calling for greater l...

Financial planning

The proposed meeting between a number of small dealer groups in Sydney next month has been postponed after concerns regarding the direction and nature of a proposed natio...

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