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New judge for AFA Adviser of the Year award

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... Director of research at Beaton Research and Consulting, Dr Rebecca Shiels, has joined the judging panel for the ninth Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) Adviser of the Year Award In her current role, Dr Sheils responsibilities include business-to-business ...

SPAA warns on year-end pitfalls

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
With the end of financial year looming large, the Self Managed Superannuation Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has issued a series of tax tips for advisers and investors. This year super investors may be eligible to begin a new two ...

Count, NAB targets SMSFs through SPAA

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... now targeting SMSF trustees through a newly-launched membership process by Self-managed super fund professionals association of Australia (SPAA). The streamlined process designed has been for advisers after dealer groups demanded a program that could ...

Advisers aim for independents over FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... Mathias Cormann, who told them to target the independents. Speaking at a packed Sydney breakfast organised by the Association of Financial Advisers, Senator Cormann told the crowd that after 1 July the shift of power in the Government would change. The ...

AFA targets online ad campaign

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
The advice industry's latest advertising campaign to be to run by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) will use a highly targeted online strategy rather than be designed to go head to head with the industry funds on national television. "We are ...

Planning pracs down 10pc value

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... arrangements, watered down fiduciary duty and gearing have practices concerned for the value of their business. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is implementing its own support network for advisers transitioning through FoFA, but said that ...

Property managers stifled by lenders

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... capital adequacy requirements on NTAs is another concern. ADPIA has proposed to change its name to the Property Funds Association of Australia. A vote takes place on May 17 to decide on the change.

Deadline tonight for Trio levy submissions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... APRA-regulated funds, is to be at a rate of $0.0001977 - or roughly 2c in every $100. Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia said small funds would not necessarily be disadvantaged as the levy was calculated ...

Advisers launch FOFA attack

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... are the ban on commissions from risk insurance in superannuation funds and the biennial opt-in requirement. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has led the charge by preparing an advice package to instruct planners on how to lobby their local ...

Budget 2011: "Benign" Budget a relief for finance sector

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... support of four of the six independents in the Lower House to pass the bill. Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia, said the time was needed to allow business to adjust and to allow the increase to be ...