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AFA working to bust FASEA myths

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
... complete a full graduate diploma. It also intends to advocate for the inclusion of areas of specialty, such as life insurance, and having its FChFP designation recognised as prior learning.

AFA keeps financial literacy front of mind

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
... family home; more than 7.5 million Australians have a credit card; and 13.9 million working age Australians have life insurance, meaning the opportunities, both technology and adviser driven, can only increase. At the same, O'Dwyer knows the complexity ...

Landmark advice reforms pass Senate

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
... Senate passing two significant reforms aimed at strengthening consumer confidence in the financial planning and life insurance sectors. Both pieces of legislation were passed unchallenged in the Senate during parliament yesterday. Professional Standards ...

Adviser appeals ASIC ban

EMMA RAPAPORT, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2017
... Review Commission which found he had engaged in misleading, deceptive, dishonest and fraudulent conduct to obtain life insurance for a client who was otherwise unlikely to obtain it; and committed a serious breach of privacy involving a number of client ...

Kaplan launches adviser diagnostic tool

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2016
... financial strategies, taxation, legislation and compliance, superannuation and retirement income investments and life insurance risk management. Kaplan Professional head of faculty Jennifer Hornsey said the development of KUDOS began in late 2014, and ...

FoFA end marks start of new advice era

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
... legislation was a missed opportunity to further improve consumer protections like banning the rorting of commissions on life insurance products." O'Dwyer made clear that this unexpected move by the Government is the final step in a long process of regulatory ...

Government to lift advice standards by law

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... to consider if the new framework has raised the professional standards of advisers. The response's approach to life insurance is different to that recommended by David Murray's FSI report. "We support the retail life insurance industry's proposed reforms ...

AFA, FPA yet to commit to FSC life risk agenda

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... insurance and expansion of approved product lists (APLs). All the above, it should be noted, were addressed in the Life Insurance and Advice Working Group's Report on Retail Life Insurance Advice, released on March 26. In response to the looming Government ...

FEATURE: Adviser education

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... exchange, derivatives, securities, superannuation, financial planning, generic knowledge, managed investments and life insurance. Australasian financial services body, Finsia, says the industry currently has an opportunity to set a global benchmark for ...

FPA proposes risk commission cap

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has released its life insurance blueprint paper discussing its aim to drive competitive, professional, and valuable service to Australian consumers. "Remuneration for insurance work should be compensated ...