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2014 MAX Award Winners and Finalists

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014

Advisers applaud "historic" ban on commissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... it "almost impossible to imagine that large financial scandals could happen again." The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief executive Brad Fox said that "the catch-all phrase did not add to consumer protection, it merely increased uncertainty ...

Advice clients don't want managed funds

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
AFA Adviser of the Year Jenny Brown has said that clients are simply not interested in investing in managed funds. "Clients don't want managed funds. I'm sorry to all the fund managers in the room but they just don't understand them," she said. Brown ...

Senate report supportive of government FoFA reforms

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... with the Coalition government and Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann," Rantall said. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief operating officer Phil Anderson also welcomed the document and said he remains optimistic that the bill will have ...

AFA launches 2014 mentoring program

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has launched its 2014/15 mentoring program, an annual initiative aimed at promoting professional standards and giving advice to young advisers. AFA GenXt National chair Fraser Jack said the mentoring program ...

Palmer United will hold the key to FoFA approval

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) have begun to lobby the senators, ahead of the Senate Economics Committee presentation of the report on the FoFA inquiry ...

AFA to recognise best adviser and best practice

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has divided the traditional Adviser of the Year Award into two and will now recognise the best individual adviser and the best advice practice. "The original Adviser of the Year Award was established by the ...

AFA upgrades Female Excellence award with business scholarship

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has opened nominations for the 2014 Female Excellence in Advice Award, which this year includes a master class for finalists at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM). The award recognises the ...

Banks support the "original" FoFA intent: ABA

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... advice will be able to receive commissions. The Financial Planning Association (FPA), the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), Industry Super Australia (ISA) and all organisations representing consumers have spoken against the exemption. The Senate ...

FPA and AFA unite: stop commissions on general advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... their appearance at the Senate hearing about the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA). The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and the Financial Planning Association (FPA) have told the Senate Economics Committee that they do not want to see employees ...