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Industry meets behind closed doors to fix advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... reform." "It's the best process that we've seen so far, so we're confident of getting the reform done this time." The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) was represented by chief operating officer Phil Anderson, who told Financial Standard that "the ...

Advisers Register hits 22k

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... advisers there will also be an added functionality allowing the change of details more readily. Speaking at an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia event in Sydney, Kell said there had been more than 60,000 searches on the Financial Advisers ...

FEATURE: Where next for risk advice?

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... referring, of course, to the Trowbridge Report. What does it say? Initiated by the Financial Services Council and the Association of Financial Advisers, the Trowbridge Review on Retail Life Insurance Advice was designed as an independent review following ...

AFA calls for adviser leadership

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
Association of Financial Advisers chief executive Brad Fox has said that advisers and licensees should take leadership roles in "pre-empting" life insurance reforms. Signalling the controversial Trowbridge Report as being the catalyst for self-directed ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... annual rate of 5.19 million units in March, the fastest pace in 18 months, according to data from the National Association of Realtors. Dow member Boeing fell 1.4 per cent as analysts focused on rising costs for production of its 787 jets rather than ...

Industry responds to Grattan report

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
Industry Super Australia and the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia have responded to the latest Grattan report on superannuation fees. In a statement, ISA chief executive David Whiteley said the report served as further evidence of bank-owned ...

ALP outlines superannuation tax policy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... announcement follows an opinion piece Bowen wrote in News Limited media on 11 April citing a research report from the Association of Superannuation Funds Australia (ASFA). In the piece he highlighted that there are 475 people with super balances in excess ...

Industry needs to act after Trowbridge report failure

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... The Trowbridge report likely won't become the "blueprint" for the life industry, said former Financial Planning Association of Australia chair Matthew Rowe. In a newspaper column, Rowe explained that this was because of disagreements between key members ...

Cheap talk, cheaper money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... They talk the talk but aren't walking the talk. This is what I walk out with after poring through the American Association of Individual Investors' (AAII) sentiment and asset allocation surveys conducted in the last week of March. In its 2 April report ...

Funds wrestling with liquidity problem

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... safe, liquid investments available for institutional investors to deploy their vast amounts of cash. Asked at an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) Investment Interchange in Sydney last month whether he was comfortable with the level ...