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Adviser, Practice of the Year finalists named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
... change," AFA chief executive Phil Kewin said. The Adviser, Practice and Rising Star of the Year will be announced at the AFA National Adviser Conference on the Gold Coast from October 10-12.

Female Excellence in Advice finalists announced

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
As the Association of Financial Advisers National Conference nears, the finalists for its 2018 Female Excellence in Advice Award were named this week. More than 370 nominations and 44 applications were received for this year's award, a record number ...

Japan needs trade peace with the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... three-month period. Another quarter of negative GDP growth would bring it back into a technical recession. The details of the National Accounts show that the economy would have contracted by more had it not been from the 0.1 percentage point contribution ...

Chief economist update: Rush hour is over for the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... that while Brexit uncertainty continues as a drag on growth, it's not intensifying. However, the details of the UK National Accounts are worrying. Household spending growth slowing to a mere 0.2% in the three-months to March - the slowest in over ...

Outgoing CEO name removed from critical AMP report draft

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... on 21 December 2017 in which Regan, Meller, AMP dispute resolution general counsel Larissa Baker Cook and Clayton Utz national practice group leader of commercial litigation Nicholas Mavrakis took part. Regan said he "didn't remember a great deal about ...

ATO closely monitoring SMSF balance caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... breaching the cap. ATO deputy commissioner for superannuation James O'Halloran told the 2018 SMSF Association National Conference last week that non-lodgement, reserves, together with actively ensuring SMSFs remain within transfer balance caps are three ...

FASEA accelerates degree equivalency agenda

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
FASEA chief executive Deen Sanders told the SMSF Association's 2018 National Conference that as part of the new financial adviser education regime a proposed framework for degree equivalence will be released in coming weeks. "Having heard the anxiety ...

Reskilling: A worthy purpose for super?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
... risk of losing one's job to automation grows. Speaking at the opening session of the SMSF Association's 2018 National Conference this morning in Sydney, La Trobe University pro-vice chancellor Phillip Dolan said while Australia's ageing population has ...

SMSF Association names new chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
The SMSF Association will welcome a new chairperson at the close of its 2018 National Conference. Replacing former Count Financial managing director Andrew Gale, Professor Deborah Ralston will assume the position. Ralston joined the SMSFA board in July ...

AFA to launch investigation into adviser misconduct

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
... while Cannon and Pianta have also both been licensed by five different dealer groups since December 2014. At the AFA's National Adviser Conference on the Gold Coast in October, ANZ Wealth's Alexis George she believes the AFA has a role to play in fact-based ...