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The Association of Financial Advisers has announced the appointment of Rob Coulter to the position of general manager, partnerships, commencing from 15 July 2019....

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has called on the Government to use a review of the Tax Practitioners Board to align and streamline the financial planner regulatory regime...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has told the Tax Practitioners Board that its proposal to impose the need for a Letter of Engagement on financial (tax) advisers is ...

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Policy & Regulation

FASEA has approved the Kaplan version of two AFA Professional Designations — the Fellow Chartered Financial Practitioner and Chartered Life Practitioner....

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned the Tax Practitioners Board that it is simply adding to current adviser stress levels by proposing tough new rules around...

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Financial planning

Financial planners face the need to convince the Senate cross-bench of the virtue of allowing more time for them to sit the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authori...

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Financial planning

The industry’s two main industry bodies have continued their unified response navigating the difficult landscape advisers are facing, yesterday meeting together with Sena...

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Life/Risk

The financial planning industry’s two major member associations have confirmed that they will be taking a joint approach to the regulator’s life insurance review, with re...

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that the new assistant minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Technology will find some urgent matters sitting in her portfolio ...

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Policy & Regulation

When the new assistant minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Technology, Jane Hume is sworn in tomorrow she will face some significant challenges ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers have formed a joint taskforce to help guide the future of life/risk commissions....

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Financial planning

Both the Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers have signalled that their lobbying priority with the newly re-elected Morrison Governmen...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has expressed utter confusion at why Industry Super Australia would think financial advisers stood to gain anything from the rebatin...

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Financial planning

The Federal Treasury has been warned that politicians have failed to understand grandfathering with the result that the emotional health and well-being of advisers is bei...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has accused the Government of unliterally and retrospectively seeking to alter the contract which exists between licensees and the A...

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