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Former Association of Financial Advisers chief executive, Phil Kewin, has been appointed as chief executive of the National Insurance Brokers Association....
Features
Mike Taylor writes that less than 12 months out from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s review of the Life Insurance Framework, the Australian life in...
Financial planning
The financial services bodies have welcomed the extension of the FASEA exam and education standards, which now have the deadline of 1 January, 2022, and 1 January, 2026, ...
Financial planning
If the Financial Planning Association can prove its proposals for individual adviser registration will hasten the development of a profession and the separation of advice...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association’s announcement of job losses and an organisational restructure driven by declining adviser numbers has reawakened calls for a merger be...
Financial planning
There are no guarantees that the legislation delivering an extension of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exam timetable will be dealt within the Senat...
Financial planning
Association of Financial Advisers chief executive, Phil Kewin, wants a Choice executive to withdraw a statement suggesting financial advisers can’t be trusted to act in c...
Financial planning
Questions are being asked about why the board of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has avoided direct engagement with key industry groups for more than...
Financial planning
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority bypassed adviser group consultation before releasing its code of ethics guidance and is now offering a November consu...
Financial planning
Advisers receiving Adviser Service Fees via Colonial First State’s superannuation funds are facing an early cut-off unless clients specifically opt in....
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers has accused the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics of Authority of using its code of ethics approach to ‘create its own laws, wa...
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers has urged banks who loaned money to advisers to buy books of clients to show leniency....
Features
Mike Taylor writes that the Australian financial advice industry is embarking on a transition which will be completed in 2024 with the result that it will be very differe...
Financial planning
The Federal Government has been warned that its loosely-framed legislation risks forcing clients into worse situations when grandfathering ends....
Financial planning
Intense lobbying by financial advisers has made Federal parliamentarians aware of their problems with the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime but unce...
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My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...
Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...
How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...