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Financial planning

The AFA announced a life insurance roadshow for insurance advisers after they indicated they need support to move from upfront to hybrid commissions....

Life/Risk

The Association of Financial Advisers wants lapses which are beyond the control of advisers to be exempted from the three-year claw-back provisions....

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Editorial

Money Management’s Mike Taylor writes that, for the AFA, the whole life/risk reform process was a case of damned if you do and damned if you don’t....

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Life/Risk

The AFA and PFL have named life insurer TAL as the 2014 Life Company of the Year. ...

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Financial planning

The bad news regarding planners will be forgotten with falling numbers indicative of cultural change according to AFA national president Deborah Kent....

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Policy & Regulation

The AFA has been accredited with the TPB, allowing eligible members a new avenue to seek registration with the board. ...

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Financial planning

Accounting graduates may prove the “feeding ground” for the evolving financial advice space, according to the head of the AFA. ...

Financial planning

AFA Chief Commercial Officer Anne Fuchs will leave the association after six months in the role to take on a distribution role with Sunsuper....

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Financial planning

The AFA has received an influx of enrolments for its recently-rebuilt education course, which it says shows an acceptance from advisers that standards have been raised. ...

Financial planning

The AFA has sought to correct a daily newspaper article which claims advisers can obtain a Fellow Chartered Financial Practitioner (FChFP) designation without completing ...

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Financial planning

Industry organisations have applauded parliament’s restoration of the grandfathering provision in the latest round of the FOFA reforms, claiming it overturned a rule that...

Policy & Regulation

The disallowance of the Future of Financial Advice amendments may hurt consumers who will not be able to access scaled advice and may be forced to change to less suitable...

Life/Risk

The Minister for Finance and Acting Asistant Treasurer, Senator Mathias Cormann will address a Money Management breakfast traversing key issues....

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Financial planning

FPA chairman, Matthew Rowe, has queried the dearth of practicing planners on FSC/AFA insurance working group....

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Life/Risk

Life insurance manufacturers need to take responsibility for last week’s ASIC report into life insurance and supply products that meet consumer needs and not research hou...

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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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Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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