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Cormann tables adviser register to "weed out bad apples"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
A public register of financial advisers will help "weed out bad apples," the Financial Planning Association (FPA) said after the government announced the creation of a working group to consult with stakeholders. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said ...

UK annuities policy dubbed 'political schizophrenia'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... introducing compulsory annuitisation in Australia. Speaking at an event on infrastructure investment hosted by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) in Sydney, National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) chief executive Joanne ...

Government succeeds in securing final FoFA changes

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... financial products. "Advisers will need to state it in the SoAs on top of the Corporations Act," the Financial Planning Association (FPA) general manager of policy and conduct Dante De Gori told Financial Standard. "It's done from a transparency perspective ...

Labor, Greens will "keep fighting" after FoFA backflip

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... the opposition would have to convince fringe party senators to change their position again. The Financial Planning Association (FPA)'s general manager of policy and conduct Dante De Gori told Financial Standard that even if the inquiry went through ...

FoFA disallowance vote will save "millions"

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... (FoFA) legislation will save the financial services industry millions of dollars according the Financial Planning Association (FPA). Commenting on the deal that was struck in the Senate this afternoon, the FPA chief executive Mark Rantall said the result ...

CBA unveils tougher adviser standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... will lift the minimum education standards for its financial advisers and demand that they belong to a professional association. The move aims to "regain some of that confidence and trust that we need in this industry, I hope others think this is a good ...

Brogden leaves FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... leader of the NSW Opposition was appointed chief executive of the FSC (then called the Investment & Financial Services Association) in July 2009. Cooper said: "John has been a tremendous asset to the financial services industry and the FSC over the past ...

AIMA appoints new general manager

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) has appointed former hedge fund manager Michael Gallagher as general manager of its Australian National Group. Gallagher replaces Brett Ireland who has decided to focus on a full-time role elsewhere ...

Here we go again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... financial markets react. A "mild" response "might encourage a somewhat faster pace," Dudley said today to the New York Association for Business Economics. "If bond yields were to move sharply higher," on the other hand, "a more cautious approach might ...

ISA FoFA report sparks industry outrage

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... bans commissions on general advice." "The execution-only provisions do not re-introduce commissions," he added. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) called ISA's assessment "inaccurate and misleading." "It is an absolute fallacy that commissions ...