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AMP's Charter names advice award winners

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
... of various industry bodies." Charter Financial Planning Managing Director Kevin Stone said. Bateman served on the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) Board for 13 years and is a former State and National President. He has also been recognised by ...

Cormann freezes FoFA amendments

MARK SMITH, ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... on industry by capturing individuals not directly involved in providing advice to clients." The Financial Planning Association (FPA) was just one industry body that expressed concerns over the amended bill. "We would have liked to see an explicit prohibition ...

ASFA appoints first COO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has appointed Tim Buskens to the newly-created role of chief operating officer (COO). Buskens was previously head of industry initiatives at Australian Administration Services (AAS), where he worked ...

International capital requirements could cripple insurers

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... Summit that will be held in Brisbane in November. GFIA chair and president of the Canadian Health and Life Insurance Association Frank Swedlove told journalists in Sydney that the proposal "does not encourage long term investment from taking place, nor ...

VC capital raising crash 75pct in 2013

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
The Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL) has raised alarm bells that the low rate venture capital fund raising in Australia could have serious long term economic implications. VC fund raising in 2012-13 crashed to ...

Industry receives FoFA bill with mixed feelings

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... the bill introducing changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) with mixed reactions. "The Financial Planning Association is supportive of the amendments, other than the general advice exemption on advice and superannuation products," the FPA chief ...

Cormann to take over Sinodinos' duties

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... the policy that has turned into the reforms of the Future of Financial Advice legislation," the Financial Planning Association (FPA) chief executive Mark Rantall told Financial Standard. The Association of Financial Advice (AFA) chief executive Brad ...

Government limits general advice exemption in FoFA amendments

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... of reintroducing commissions, but it limits it and makes it unlikely that they come back," the Financial Planning Association (FPA) general manager of policy and government relations Dante De Gori told Financial Standard. "We would have liked to see ...

FoFA introduced into parliament with some tweaks

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... the receipt of conflicted remuneration to employees only of a financial services licensee. The Financial Planning Association (FPA) welcomed the changes to the bill. "Whilst this policy shift tightens the pre-conditions under which conflicted remuneration ...

FoFA changes to be tabled today

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... amendments to parliament. Dante De Gori, general manager, policy and government relations at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) said he expects the government to introduce the changes both as legislation and regulation. "Our understanding is the ...