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FoFA disallowance vote will save "millions"

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... campaign of misinformation by opponents of these reforms, was deeply disturbing to our members," AFA chief executive Brad Fox said. "The work of the Government and the Senators in resolving this matter is very important to the financial advice profession ...

CBA unveils tougher adviser standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... advisers have their day-to-day conversations with clients," the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief executive Brad Fox said. Advisers should be open about their value proposition and not enter conversations with new clients on the defensive ...

ISA FoFA report sparks industry outrage

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... commissions and new sales incentives have been introduced for financial advisers by the FoFA amendments," AFA chief executive Brad Fox said. "We have said it before and we will say it again - our members, who are financial advisers providing personal ...

Independence Day for the US economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... time! He might be correct after all and I'll have to put the letters "W" and "R" to prefix my surname again. Deym! Recall his Fox Business News interview where he declared that he foresees the Fed lifting interest rates in the first quarter because his ...

AFA and ANZ Wealth search for tenth Rising Star

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014

US bond yields zipped by ZIRP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... not be in the first quarter of next year as Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard declared in his interview with Fox Business News last week. At its June meeting, the Fed revised its outlook as follows: GDP growth at 2.1%-2.3% for 2014, down ...

James knows when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... expects. Bullard of bull (dropping?). Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said so in his interview with Fox Business News. Read his lips: The market and even the Fed don't know. "...I don't think markets, and I'm not sure policy ...

Senate report, a turning point for advice industry

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... milestone findings today." Speaking to Financial Standard, the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief executive Brad Fox said that "the report has identified some advice procedures that are of concern." He added that "the momentum towards professionalism ...

Retail funds also guilty of 'Compare the Pair' vagueness

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... to the BT and ANZ ads. BT and ANZ are both members of the FSC. The Association of Financial Advisers chief executive Brad Fox said the ASIC ruling demonstrated that ISA could not be trusted in its position on the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms. ...

Advisers applaud "historic" ban on commissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... imagine that large financial scandals could happen again." The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief executive Brad Fox said that "the catch-all phrase did not add to consumer protection, it merely increased uncertainty for advisers, which meant ...