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Life/Risk
ASIC deputy chairman Peter Kell has used his speech at the AFA national conference to announce major surveillance of retail advice with respect to life insurance. ...
Life/Risk
CommInsure’s Tim Browne says the company had stopped using the word ‘churn’ because it doesn’t accurately represent the underlying issue, which is policy design....
Financial planning
Bank executive confirms impact of grandfathering on practice funding. ...
Financial planning
Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos flags what could be a lengthy process to FOFA changes....
Financial planning
The FPA has written to the Government seeking clarity around grandfathering and urging a tax deduction for the provision of initial advice....
Financial planning
Six women have been named finalists for the third annual Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and TAL AFA Female Excellence and Advice Award. ...
Financial planning
The major planning organisations are already gearing up to meet with the new Abbott Government ministers....
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has announced the finalists of its 2013 AFA Adviser of the Year Award....
Financial planning
The FOFA fee disclosure requirements seem to have confused as many clients as they have informed....
Financial planning
For those advisers aspiring to greater things, two recent pieces of research may contain the insights they need to drive their business further, according to Zurich’s Ric...
Editorial
Just days will separate two key conferences aimed at financial planners and advisers next month, but Mike Taylor writes that success or failure will not be judged solely ...
Financial planning
The major planning organisations expect the newly-elected Coalition Government to deliver on the promised changes to FOFA....
Financial planning
The Fold Legal launches three new online learning modules in its Financial Advice Series....
Life/Risk
Australian consumers are more engaged with life insurance than ever before, which could be the cause of increased lapse rates, according to chief executive officer of TAL...
Editorial
Industry Super Network CEO David Whiteley has made an appeal to financial advisers to give FOFA a chance to work before rushing to have the reforms amended. ...
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