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AFA searches for Rising Star

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
... award close on August 1, with the winner announced at the AFA National Conference on 19th of October. More than 960 delegates registered for this year's AFA National Forum, a 60 per cent jump in delegate number on the previous year. Both Browne and last ...

Sparks fly at APRA statistics forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
... the compliance costs of collecting and supplying extra information without a sufficient cost-benefit justification. Delegates to the forum were told APRA should first pick the low hanging fruit by providing greater clarity on industry definitions rather ...

Commodities investors nervous about inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
... adjusting down their weightings to the commodities sector. The move has caught analysts by surprise. Last week in Sydney, delegates at the Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce luncheon heard that the resources sector in Australia is now bigger than financials ...

From cash to prosperity: AFA

... strategies for handling fears and concerns about volatile markets. "The forum's all about peer to peer learning, it's about delegates hearing from their peers, it's about tangible, takeaway advice skills, as well as hearing from industry experts," said ...

Climate change good for agriculture

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
... that the high food prices will push countries to protectionism, which has already been seen." Despite these challenges, delegates at a recent climate change summit convened by the Farm Institute carried the view that Australian agriculture continued ...

Longevity puts focus on trauma insurance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
Improving longevity means insurance will need to cover individuals while they are still alive - not when they die, delegates of last week's Riskstore Living Insurances conference were told. "Cancer rates are going up but this is because of aging. Actual ...

Product-based fees create conflict

... facing the financial planning industry. "The pleasing aspect to come out of this forum was the general agreement among delegates regarding the importance of the financial planning industry, as it continues to grow and head towards professionalism," said ...

IIFA pledges global reporting standards

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
... a better investment fund reporting system at its 21st annual meeting, which concluded in Sydney last Friday. The 76 delegates, representing 35 different national investment fund associations, pledged to improve reporting standards after recognising the ...

AFA sharpens technical skills

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has booked 26 per cent more delegates this year than last year for its upcoming event, the AFA National Conference, with the three-day event focusing on hands on, practical ideas for advisers and the technical ...

Lack of automation hikes costs

... lack of automation. "More than 80 per cent of the transactions we get from your distributors are manual," he told the delegates. But Chris Ryan, chief executive officer of ING Asset Management in Asia, countered that manual processing is often "not a ...