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Advisers to study for 200 hours under TASA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... covering Australian taxation and commercial law. Advisers who are members or are seeking membership of a professional association would be exempt from additional education requirements under TASA, the TPB proposed in two exposure drafts on education ...

Licensees must be more open to social media: AFA

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... Licensees that allow advisers to be active on social media could soon be more appealing to advisers according the Association of Financial Advisers chief executive Brad Fox. Speaking on a panel at the AdviserEdge Social Advice Summit on the Gold Coast ...

Licensee transparency far more urgent than advice register

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... provide references when an adviser leaves a dealer group is more urgent than the government's advice register, the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief executive Brad Fox said. "My belief is that it's more important and more urgent because ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases the wage price index for June quarter, the Housing Industry Association releases its trades report for the same quarter while the Westpac/Melbourne Institute's Survey of Consumer Sentiment is also ...

AFA appoints chief commercial officer

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers has created the role of chief commercial officer, a position responsible for the association's commercial relationships with stakeholders and consumer campaigns. Pinnacle Practice director Anne Fuchs will take over ...

FEAL and T. Rowe Price launch national resilience program

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
The Fund Executives Association (FEAL) and global asset manager T. Rowe Price have launched a "national resilience program" to foster sustainable leadership within the funds management industry. FEAL chief executive Joanna Davison said the initiative ...

Leeanne Turner wins FEAL fund executive of the year

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
Motor Trades Association of Australia Superannuation Fund (MTAA Super) chief executive Leeanne Turner has won the 2014 fund executive of the year by the Fund Executive Association Limited (FEAL) and AMP Capital. Turner has more than 25 years' experience ...

General advice is not advice: Rantall

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... 'general advice' is misleading to consumers, and would be more appropriately labeled 'product sales', Financial Planning Association chief executive Mark Rantall has said. Speaking to a full house of Financial Services Council conference delegates, Rantall ...

ACCI calls for end to super in awards

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... of gaining new members - without the support of their employer groups. ACCI members include the Australian Hotels Association, which appoints trustees to the board of HOSTPLUS, and the Master Builders Association, which appoints trustees to the Cbus ...

Financial services export industry must rival iron ore

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... economic growth, chairman of the Financial Services Council Greg Cooper said in his opening address to delegates at the association's annual conference yesterday. "Selling financial services to individuals or companies outside Australia is as much an ...