SAFAA

Financial planning

The name change decision by the Stockbrokers and Financial Advisers Association was about highlighting the profession rather than a decision to distance itself from the a...

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Financial planning

The organisation would now be known as the Stockbrokers and Investment Advisers Association as not all of its members provided financial advice....

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Financial planning

Advisers providing personal advice may have an exemption regarding complying with Target Market Determination but confusion remains around proving the use of the informat...

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Financial planning

The Stockbrokers and Financial Advisers Association (SAFAA) has urged the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) to consider stockbrokers as distinct from financial plan...

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Financial planning

Advisers who have moved away from servicing retail clients could struggle and require further costs and education if a move goes ahead to reclassify wholesale investors, ...

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Financial planning

Extending the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort to wholesale investors could open up ‘gaming’ of the system by those who could afford court costs, according to the Stock...

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Financial planning

The financial advice industry needs to keep experienced advisers to mentor the next generation, especially when there is a market crash, and to curb clients being orphane...

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Financial planning

The organisation believes a review into professional indemnity insurance is crucial before a compensation scheme of last resort can be filed, in order to identify sources...

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Financial planning

The Government should be regulating finfluencers and they are not the same as getting advice from a taxi driver or guy “at the pub”, according to the Stockbrokers and Fin...

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Financial planning

The Stockbrokers and Financial Advisers Association has welcomed the report that led to the corporate regulator putting additional licence conditions on the Australian Se...

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Policy & Regulation

Eight consumer groups have united with eight industry bodies in opposition to the compensation scheme of last resort (CSLR) legislation in its current form....

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Editorial

While the Government has called the inquiry “urgent”, what is perhaps more urgent is handling the advice industry given droves of advisers are leaving the industry due to...

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Financial planning

First-time investors currently sourcing information from social media should not be shut out of receiving financial advice in the future as a result of public policy. ...

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Financial planning

The unmet advice needs gap brought by the increasing regulatory burden will diminish access to investment opportunities and inevitably impact capital concentration and co...

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Policy & Regulation

Industry bodies have welcomed the Government’s decision to implement a temporary reduction in cost recovery levies for the next two years, as well as a review of the indu...

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