ASSOCIATION OF FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has dismissed as ‘simply false’ suggestions that degrees older than 10 years might be discounted under the new Financial Adviser Sta...

Financial planning

Both the Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers will be using the highly-charged feedback received from their members to the Financial A...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has called for clarity in the penalty regime covering financial planning in circumstances where it appears to have evolved to become...

Life/Risk

Have your say on the LIF by completing Money Management's Life/Risk survey, and then hear the outcomes debated at our annual Life/Risk breakfast. ...

Editorial

Association of Financial Advisers chief executive, Brad Fox, argues that planners will need to become increasingly adaptive to cope with the rapid rate of change occurrin...

Life/Risk

The AFA and PFL have named life insurer TAL as the 2014 Life Company of the Year. ...

Financial planning

Documents tabled in Parliament reveal NAB saw no commercial case for pursuing the removal of upfront life/risk commissions. ...

Financial planning

The bad news regarding planners will be forgotten with falling numbers indicative of cultural change according to AFA national president Deborah Kent....

Life/Risk

Australia’s life insurance sector has been put on notice that its current model is unsustainable and handed a reform ultimatum by regulators. But what will this mean for ...

Financial planning

Life/risk advisers concerned at reports FSC submission urges 20 per cent flat commission and five-year responsibility period....

Financial planning

After this week’s leadership challenge the Federal Government will not waste political capital championing changes to FOFA according to the AFA....

Policy & Regulation

The AFA has been accredited with the TPB, allowing eligible members a new avenue to seek registration with the board. ...

Financial planning

Concerned that the Trowbridge report reflects their working reality, life/risk advisers dominate 130 submissions to the Life Insurance and Advice Working Group....

Editorial

As the financial planning industry proceeds further into 2015 it must accept little or no further change to FOFA but a range of new debates and opportunities....

Financial planning

Accounting graduates may prove the “feeding ground” for the evolving financial advice space, according to the head of the AFA. ...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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