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Policy & Regulation

The Association of Financial Advisers has thanked the Palmer United Party “for its proactive action” in voting down a move to disallow the Government’s FOFA reforms....

Policy & Regulation

Treasury disowns key FOFA research

Senior Treasury officials deny the Treasury has endorsed ISA-sponsored Rice Warner research on FOFA implications....

Financial planning

AFA and Zurich revamp Adviser Award

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

Policy & Regulation

AFA produces FOFA facts analysis

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

Financial planning

Planning bodies support register but reject exam

Adviser associations support the creation of an adviser register but reject an exam as an inadequate measure of adviser competencies. ...

Financial planning

AFA to launch a grassroots FOFA campaign

The AFA calls members to fight 'scare-mongering’ around consumer protection by engaging federal MPs on FOFA....

Financial planning

AFA relaunches Masters-linked adviser designation

Education program to offer continuing professional development and credits towards further qualifications. ...

Financial planning

Industry welcomes FOFA draft amendments

The release of draft amendments to FOFA have been welcomed but representative bodies still to pick through the details...

Editorial

Harnessing people power

Olivia Maragna has won the inaugural Money Management/Super Review Women in Finance Services Awards' Financial Planner of the Year Award. ...

Financial planning

AFA Adviser of the Year finalists announced

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has announced the finalists of its 2013 AFA Adviser of the Year Award....

Editorial

A tale of two conferences

Just days will separate two key conferences aimed at financial planners and advisers next month, but Mike Taylor writes that success or failure will not be judged solely ...

Financial planning

Deliver on FOFA changes, say planners

The major planning organisations expect the newly-elected Coalition Government to deliver on the promised changes to FOFA....

Editorial

No substitute for face-to-face

While a recent Money Management/Association of Financial Advisers thought leadership breakfast traversed the manner in which FOFA has accelerated the penetration of techn...