ASSOCIATION OF FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned the Tax Practitioners Board that it is simply adding to current adviser stress levels by proposing tough new rules around...

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Financial planning

Financial planners face the need to convince the Senate cross-bench of the virtue of allowing more time for them to sit the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authori...

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Financial planning

The industry’s two main industry bodies have continued their unified response navigating the difficult landscape advisers are facing, yesterday meeting together with Sena...

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Policy & Regulation

When the new assistant minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Technology, Jane Hume is sworn in tomorrow she will face some significant challenges ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers have formed a joint taskforce to help guide the future of life/risk commissions....

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Financial planning

Both the Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers have signalled that their lobbying priority with the newly re-elected Morrison Governmen...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has expressed utter confusion at why Industry Super Australia would think financial advisers stood to gain anything from the rebatin...

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Life/Risk

The Association of Financial Advisers has told Treasury that insurance inside superannuation is of lesser quality than advised insurance, with there being an important tr...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has accused the Government of unliterally and retrospectively seeking to alter the contract which exists between licensees and the A...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has claimed the Royal Commission failed to hit what it was aiming at and, instead, has impacted small financial advisers and mortgag...

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Financial planning

The planning industry faces an obstacle in ensuring consumers are aware that advisers are improving their education standards, if it wants to see the possible improvement...

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Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has seemingly omitted the ‘Graduate Outcome Statements’, referred to in FPS002 Program and Provider Accreditation Pol...

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Financial planning

A number of financial advisers have reacted angrily to the latest Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority education pathways policy claiming it allows insufficie...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned that summarily ending grandfathered trailing commissions would create a legal/commercial quagmire which may end up benefi...

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Financial planning

After meeting with the Assistant Treasurer, Stuart Robert, the Association of Financial Advisers has vowed to continue pressing for more changes to the Financial Adviser ...

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