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The Association of Financial Advisers has appointed a general manager of strategic alliances. ...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has urged the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority to give greater weight to further education and CPD when assessing th...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has urged that planners doing their Professional Year should be allowed to generate revenue for the planning practices overseeing th...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned that handing ASIC product intervention powers will add to the cost of advice while limiting the scope of approved product...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned that the financial adviser exam represents a ‘cull’ mechanism as it is currently proposed....

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned of a likely upsurge in super complaints out of the Royal Commission and the possibility that the financial planning indus...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has told the Productivity Commission that clients actually do get value from trailing commissions and should be informed of that val...

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Superannuation

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned the Productivity Commission it is placing at risk historical special deals struck between employers and superannuation fu...

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Editorial

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has had a less than stellar beginning and owes it to the financial planning industry to pick up its act and deliver a...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has urged the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority to make the claims-handling performance of the major life insurers public, ...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned that the new Australian Financial Complaints Authority regime is likely to drive up professional indemnity insurance prem...

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Superannuation

The Association of Financial Advisers warns that even though its life/risk adviser members will be advantaged by new legislation making insurance within superannuation “o...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned that the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority is at an inflection point and may have already lost the hearts ...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers have warned that it is financial advisers and their clients who will ultimately have to carry the cost of the code monitoring arrang...

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Financial planning

The high cost of acquiring and then maintaining code-monitoring status may finally serve to unite the key financial planning organisations....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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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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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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