ASSOCIATION OF FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Financial planning

Draft proposals to waive the tax and commercial law course requirements for registration under the TASA are being welcomed by the AFA....

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Policy & Regulation

Questions are being asked about Industry Super Australia’s integrity after its 'Compare the Pair’ advertising campaign was labelled as potentially misleading by ASIC....

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Policy & Regulation

Industry lobbyists are giving the Federal Government’s decision to plough ahead with the implementation of some elements of the Future of Financial Advice reforms a mixed...

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Financial planning

The grandfathering problems that plagued the advice space a year ago continue to stymy advisers and remain heavy burden on consumer choice, the Association of Financial A...

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Policy & Regulation

The AFA is not surprised by the report of the Parliamentary Committee on the FOFA amendments but wants the line held on product advice....

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and foundation award partner Zurich have launched the inaugural advice practice of the year award....

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Financial planning

The AFA has restated its wariness about the general advice exemption at a Senate hearing. ...

Financial planning

Measures in the Abbott Government’s inaugural budget have divided financial planning groups, prompting both praise and condemnation. ...

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that ASIC is right to pursue managers with just as much vigour as it pursues financial planners when things go wrong. ...

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that planners and the Government need to reflect upon how they were once again outflanked by the industry funds in the battle for the hearts and minds ...

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Financial planning

The attributes that companies are seeking in financial planners are drastically changing, with sales no longer a must-have skill, writes Milana Pokrajac. ...

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Financial planning

Milana Pokrajac explores the pluses and minuses of vertically integrated dealer groups and the concept of a so-called ‘benign institution’....

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Financial planning

While education has long been the yardstick by which advisers are measured, the bar has been raised and standards have become more widespread than ever before. As Jason S...

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Policy & Regulation

The AFA has moved to enter the FOFA pause consultations with an analysis designed to counter a “rolling campaign of fiction and misrepresentation”....

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Editorial

The executive director of the Revenue Group within the Federal Treasury, Rob Heferen, made a very important point to last month’s SPAA conference in Brisbane: any change ...

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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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Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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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 banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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