BRAD FOX

Financial planning

New FOFA research commissioned by industry funds is at odds with reality, according to financial planning executives. ...

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Financial planning

Planners are already changing their commercial decisions on business acquisitions because of grandfathering issues. ...

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Financial planning

The AFA is working with Treasury to prevent the loss of grandfathering on existing clients when advisers change licensees. ...

Life/Risk

Cultural shifts over the last few years might have resulted in consumers driving churn, according to an insurance executive....

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Financial planning

Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief executive officer Brad Fox has called for a new life insurance awareness campaign after a white paper revealed a huge gap be...

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Superannuation

Independent planners have been squeezed out of tendering for corporate superannuation - or so it seems for now. ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Opposition has confirmed it will back any move by new Treasurer, Chris Bowen, to delay the implementation of FOFA....

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Accounting

Accountants accept TASA outcome, saying it is the ultimate outcome rather than the journey that matters. ...

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Life/Risk

AFA insists any examination of churn and self-regulation must look beyond the adviser channel....

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Life/Risk

The Federal Opposition says that so far as churn exists in the life/risk sector it should be subject to a self-regulatory approach....

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Accounting

FPA and AFA make last-ditch call for financial planner elements of TASA bill to be removed to allow appropriate review....

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Superannuation

Super contribution cap welcomed for older workers but slug on higher earners is disincentive and adds complexity to system...

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Superannuation

Corporate super advisers will need to team up with super fund administrators to ensure a continuation of their revenue stream as a result of the combined effects of the F...

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Financial planning

AFA chief executive Brad Fox says the AFA will re-engage with the FSC around churn but that the major insurers must also ante up....

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Life/Risk

ASIC will spend the next 12 months focusing intensely on churn, according to the senior executive leader of the financial advisers team, Joanna Bird. ...

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2 months ago

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...

4 months ago

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

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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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