PHIL KEWIN

Editorial

Even the frequent critics of financial advisers should acknowledge that their calls for an extension to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exam timetabl...

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Financial planning

The private contractual nature of Buyer of Last Resort arrangements has served to leave the major planning organisations on the sidelines as advisers see their pay-outs e...

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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

Amid claims by Industry Super Australia that grandfathering should be ended rapidly and without a client rebate regime, some advisers are claiming that industry funds sal...

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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 Association of Financial Advisers has claimed the Royal Commission failed to hit what it was aiming at and, instead, has impacted small financial advisers and mortgag...

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Financial planning

Four out of five advisers believe that the Best Interests Duty has been necessary to raise industry standards, with the compliance regime improving their confidence in th...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned that summarily ending grandfathered trailing commissions would create a legal/commercial quagmire which may end up benefi...

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Financial planning

After meeting with the Assistant Treasurer, Stuart Robert, the Association of Financial Advisers has vowed to continue pressing for more changes to the Financial Adviser ...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has vowed to inform the Assistant Treasurer, Stuart Robert, of the lack of progress achieved by the Financial Adviser Standards and ...

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People & Products

OnePath has won the over Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and the Beddoes Institute 2018 Consumer Choice Award, with ClearView coming in second place....

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has defended life/risk commissions and grandfathering while criticising the Royal Commission’s interim report, claiming it suggests ...

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People & Products

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

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