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Advice association chief steps down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021
The chief executive of the Association of Financial Advisers has stepped down after four years in the role. Phil Kewin has led the AFA since 2017, having succeeded Brad Fox as chief executive in March of that year. He said the time is right to hand ...

Life Company of the Year named

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
The Association of Financial Advisers has announced the winner of its 2020 Life Company of the Year award, going to the same insurer four years in a row. TAL took out the top spot again with runners up AIA Australia, MLC Life Insurance and NEOS Life. ...

Government passes advice, super reforms

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2021
... Customers will now be much better positioned to assess value for money," Veyret said. But the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) said the annual renewal is a timely and costly burden to advisers which in turn will flow onto the accessibility of ...

Wage subsidy to rescue advice industry

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
... subsidy to incentivise advice practices to take hire graduates. In its pre-Budget submission, the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) recommended the government introduce a $10,000 wage subsidy for employing professional year students, citing the ...

Wage subsidy needed for new entrants: AFA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021
The Association of Financial Advisers has called on the government to provide a wage subsidy to financial advice practices to encourage employment of new entrants needing to complete their professional year. In its pre-Budget submission, the AFA has ...

Ignition Advice expands team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
... for APAC, as it grows its global team. Rob Coulter will step into the role, joining from the Association of Financial Advisers where he was general manager, partnerships. Coulter was head of corporate development at AMP Advice (and ipac Securities prior) ...

Almost 3000 advisers gone in 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... not at the same rate, as the pressure to meet FASEA education requirements lifts moderately. Association of Financial Advisers general manager, policy and professionalism Phil Anderson agreed that exits are likely to remain elevated through 2021. "The ...

Key advice reforms tabled

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
... an arrangement that the member has agreed to (with the exception of intra-fund advice). The Association of Financial Advisers chief executive Philip Kewin said while all three elements are important, the most significant issue for the AFA and its members ...

Government to wind up FASEA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
... mandatory standards and law, and applying discipline," FPA chief executive Dante De Gori said. Association of Financial Advisers chief executive Philip Kewin echoed similar sentiments. "Financial advisers and the advice industry as a whole have been ...

ASIC opens consultation on scaled advice

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2020
... what's stopping them. ASIC senior executive leader, financial advisers Kate Metz said at the Association of Financial Advisers Conference that ASIC has given guidance in the past that supports limited or scaled advice but are hearing from licensees that ...