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United front but no merger: AFA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
... doing with the FPA in recent months, including the joint taskforce on life insurance and lobbying Senator Jane Hume in Canberra. Consistent with that, FPA chief executive Dante De Gori attended the conference - the first time a sitting FPA chief executive ...

Advice association merger up to members

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... Services Council Summit in Sydney this week, the head of the FPA said the advice industry was still being "ripped apart" in Canberra for not showing a united face in the past, allowing politicians to discard the lobbying efforts of both advocates for ...

Train of legislation to hit advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
... her worried about the way legislation was going to impact their business and she would often wonder how politicians in Canberra could be so unaware of the unintended impacts of legislation. "It's so important that politicians and regulators understand ...

Super sector needs to end culture war

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... have over the industry, zeroing in on the "half a dozen major lobby groups are constantly decamped at Parliament House Canberra." Such lobby groups, he says, are reluctant to change the current system, and propagate the "myth" that more super is always ...

Inaugural FASEA exam results in

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... and more than 1000 are already enrolled. Exams will be held across eight metropolitan locations throughout in Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Darwin and Hobart. For September, regional sittings will be offered in Townsville, Gold ...

Radar Results hires Queensland manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... from today. She joined Radar Results in October 2018, working as a licensed business buyer's agent across Sydney and Canberra. Prior to Radar Results, Hart spent three years at Count Financial as a network development manager and then took on a senior ...

Keybridge shareholder threatens board spill

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
... Staermose and Primary Securities arranged a meeting for the unitholders of the Aurora Absolute Return Fund (ASX: ABW) in Canberra to vote on resolutions to remove Aurora as the responsible entity of the fund with Primary Securities.The January 15 vote ...

FASEA exam was fair: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
... than a third (28%) said the exam was straightforward. The first sitting took place between June 20 and 24 in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane, Townsville, Adelaide, Perth, Darwin and Hobart. The second sitting will be held between September 19 and ...

Super fund bolsters leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... Verwey, co-founder and managing director of Future Super. Future Super now has about 35 employees between its Sydney and Canberra operations.

Self-licensing trend boosts ClearView offering

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... services, such as back-office infrastructure and support. Now NSW-based practice Macaplan Financial Planning Resources and Canberra-based Rightway Insurance Services have chosen LaVista to assist them in managing licence obligations. LaVista chief executive ...