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Insurance through super saves $403 million

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... annual cost to government of social security by about $403 million, according to new research commissioned by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). These savings are a result of a decrease in costs related to government spending ...

AFA Adviser of Year and Practice of Year semi-finalists announced

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and Zurich Financial Services Australia (Zurich) have announced the semi-finalists in the 2014 AFA Adviser of the Year and Practice of the Year Awards. The Adviser of the Year honour was first awarded in 2003 ...

ASFA asks FSI for clear targets to measure super success

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has called on the Murray Inquiry to set clear objectives against which the success of superannuation's role in reducing the Age Pension burden on public coffers can be measured. In its latest ...

Movers and shakers

... and earlier held roles at Invesco and ING in key accounts and research. A AFA appoints chief commercial officer The Association of Financial Advisers has created the role of chief commercial officer, a position responsible of the association's commercial ...

AMP lifts minimum adviser standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... place by mid-2015. The measures announced today have the support of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA).A AMP is liaising with these groups and calling on the industry to adopt these measures. "The ...

Licensees must be more open to social media: AFA

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... Licensees that allow advisers to be active on social media could soon be more appealing to advisers according the Association of Financial Advisers chief executive Brad Fox. Speaking on a panel at the AdviserEdge Social Advice Summit on the Gold Coast ...

Licensee transparency far more urgent than advice register

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... provide references when an adviser leaves a dealer group is more urgent than the government's advice register, the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief executive Brad Fox said. "My belief is that it's more important and more urgent because ...

AFA appoints chief commercial officer

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers has created the role of chief commercial officer, a position responsible for the association's commercial relationships with stakeholders and consumer campaigns. Pinnacle Practice director Anne Fuchs will take over ...

Financial services export industry must rival iron ore

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... economic growth, chairman of the Financial Services Council Greg Cooper said in his opening address to delegates at the association's annual conference yesterday. "Selling financial services to individuals or companies outside Australia is as much an ...

Advice register talks focus on financial advice scope

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... sense is that they should be categorised in different segments depending on what kind of advice they provide." The Association of Financial Advice (AFA) chief executive officer Phil Anderson attended the meeting on Thursday and told Financial Standard ...