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Compliance alone doesn't make the grade

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2006
Competent is a long way from professional, professional is not something that should be prescribed by the regulators and, as an industry, we've had our focus all wrong, according to Financial Services Educators Agency Australia (FSEAA) general manager ...

Save before you buy: MIAA

... large enough deposit before buying a home, according to the latest survey on home ownership. The Mortgage Industry Association of Australia (MIAA) teamed up with BankWest to conduct the MIAA/BankWest Home Finance Survey, which collected data from 842 ...

Little Black Book now available on FinancialStandard.com.au

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2006
Responding to demand from planners, super funds, employers and consumers for more help finding product and service providers from across the marketplace, Financial Standard has today launched its Little Black Book online. "The LBB is a free-to-air directory ...

Reverse mortgages require proper planning: IAA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2006
... investment situation, he said. For this reason, while the IAA supports the initiatives of reverse mortgage industry association SEQUAL, they believe it should go the extra step of requiring potential customers to seek financial advice over and above ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2006
... unchanged from the previous month. The ABS building approvals data is consistent with the weakness in the Housing Industry Association's new home sales survey. The HIA survey shows that Australian new home sales dropped by 6.5 per cent in April, more ...

Associations need to raise standards themselves: Pearce

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2006
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Chris Pearce, has played down any chance of ramping up regulation over the financial planning industry and has urged key industry associations to take raising standards into their own hands. Opening the financial ...

Labor launches 6-point super plan

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2006
... pre-salary-sacrifice wage. The Opposition Leader's plan to embrace co-contributions has been applauded by industry association, Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) CEO, Richard Gilbert, who added that they look forward to working with ...

AIOFP signs up OFM as reverse mortgage provider

... that financial planners are accredited either through the provider's own training program or the Mortgage Industry Association of Australia's (MIAA's) mortgage brokers accreditation course. Giles said that while the reverse mortgage sector does not fall ...

Cyclones and underinsurance strike in North Queensland

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2006
... Queensland to make mopping up after the damage caused by Cyclone Larry even more difficult. Growcom, the industry association that represents fruit and vegetable growers in Queensland, said crop insurance was almost impossible to obtain, and, to the ...

FPA appoints new CEO

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has appointed a new CEO to replace Kerrie Kelly who departed on 3 March. Jo-Anne Bloch, formerly deputy CEO of the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) from 2002-04 and most recently principal ...