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AFA maps education Pathway

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) hopes to fill the gap in adviser education by launching a new course that accommodates the time constraints and 'adult learning' needs of today's financial planners. It's nearly a year of consultation with ...

Good wine, good advice

... preliminary financial advice counted as a capital expense. However, the industry's peak body, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) is lobbying for the government to change this rule. But Leslie said that in a way it filters out people who are not ...

More education for SMSF auditors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2008
... Ivey, The Institute manager of financial planning and superannuation, said. In addition, Read said the government, in association with various industry bodies, had developed tools that included an electronic auditing program to be released this year. ...

Dinosaur fund taxes should be scrapped: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2008
... Taxation to review taxation arrangements applying to the sector. Minister Bowen told an Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) conference last Friday that he had released a consultation paper looking into abolishing the archaic Division ...

Asian REITs continue to sizzle

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
... term despite an expected sluggish global property market in 2008. Peter Mitchell, CEO of the Asian Public Real Estate Association (APREA) said at a nabCapital-sponsored seminar yesterday that the emerging Asian real estate investment trust (REIT) market ...

FPA takes it to the grassroots

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has established the Future Financial Planners Council, made up of the country's key industry players, to raise awareness of the profession among university students. The Council will design marketing material ...

New era for investment analysts

... the industry's leading experts to go back to "school" to teach the new rules. The Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) co-chair of education Angela Ashton said that the books are constantly being re-written when it comes to valuing and ...

Plan for Life and AFA award life industry Who's Who

... event will be even bigger and that the broadening of categories this year will enhance the awards' usefulness. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief executive Richard Klipin added that the awards are also critical in the industry's development ...

Investment infrastructure needs upgrade: ACSA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
... to attract more foreign investors, according to a custodial expert. Speaking at the Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA) conference, Bryan Gray, chairman at ACSA, said Australia relied too heavily on old fashion faxing and manual processing. ...

SMSFs under microscope

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
... responsibilities, and without appreciating the costs involved," he said. Sherry will address the matter at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) national conference in March.