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Insurers take "adversarial approach" to claims

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... good job on showing the positive outcomes of insurance," the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief executive Brad Fox said. To Beddoes Institute's Rebecca Sheils, "consumers had a sense that it would be more complex to get their money back than ...

Industry welcomes grandfathering extension

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... grandfathering, was released in March 2013, however this was not finalised until the very last minute," AFA chief executive Brad Fox said. "The finalised regulation contains some additional elements that were not in the draft, including grandfathering ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... per cent, to $4.70 and the newly separated News Corporation's non-printing entertainment arm, soon to be called 21st Century Fox, which has shot up 76 cents, or 2.5 per cent, to $31.23. The big miners are posting solid losses, however, following falls ...

Super investors scrutinise companies over LDC working conditions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
ASX-listed companies are being asked to confront poor working conditions in 'least developed countries' (LDCs), with the release of a paper by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) entitled 'Labour and Human Rights Risks in Supply-Chain ...

Government agrees to 12-month TASA exemption

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... financial services industry welcomed the Government's decision. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief executive Brad Fox said that "the delay in implementation is essential given the regulatory overload the industry is already dealing with." ...

AFA moves into broadcast to promote advice vision

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... new broasdcast strategy to raise awareness about the importance of receiving financial advice. The AFA chief executive Brad Fox told Financial Standard that the organisation is working on producing a program to tell "real stories about real advice that ...

FPA, AFA to lobby MPs for TASA delay

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... issue and we are asking our members to start lobbying the independents in their constituencies," AFA chief executive Brad Fox told Financial Standard. "The vast majority of the financial advice market is not ready to come into the TASA legislation," ...

Shorten slams opposition's 'freeze-frame' super plans

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... Financial Advisers (AFA) has welcomed the passing of the bill into the House of Representatives; however, AFA chief executive Brad Fox said the industry body has reservations about the increase in super contributions tax for higher income earners. "While ...

Adviser "enshrinement" bill passes through lower house

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services and they supported it," AFA chief executive Brad Fox said. "The AFA continues to believe that the legislation is good for both consumers of financial advice services and for the ...

Planners must advise people, not portfolios

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... are a basic expectation that clients have, but what's really important are interpersonal skills," AFA chief executive Brad Fox said.