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Major industry events cancelled amid pandemic

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... coronavirus may be worse in September 2020 than in May 2020 and Synchron will therefore not be moving its national conference to September," Trapnell said. Class Connect was also indefinitely postponed for 2020, with Class calling for input on an alternative ...

What you read in 2019: Financial advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... shoot down. 8. Government extends FASEA deadline At the close of the Association of Financial Advisers' national conference in August, the announcement that many advisers had been waiting for finally came - the deadline to meet new education standards ...

Priced out: Advice affordability at risk

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2019
... recent action taken by both AMP and MLC Wealth. Speaking at the recent Association of Financial Advisers' National Conference, AFA general manager of policy and professionalism Phil Anderson argued the affordability of advice for ordinary Australians ...

United front but no merger: AFA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
... increasingly recognising the strength of a single voice and a single message. Speaking to media at the AFA National Conference, Bineham said the theme of this year's conference was developed largely on the back of the work the AFA has been doing with ...

Secrets to selling revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
... successfully selling a financial advice business. Appearing at the 2019 Association of Financial Advisers' National Conference, Hoskin revealed that businesses she had coached were worth much more on the open market than similar businesses that hadn't ...

Government extends FASEA deadlines

KARREN VERGARA, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019
... set by FASEA," she said. It comes just days after Hume spoke at the Association of Financial Advisers' National Conference in Adelaide, but failed to announce the extension at the event. Responding to the extension, the AFA described the announcement ...

Life insurance leaders fear for industry

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019
... concerns for the future of the industry. Appearing on a panel at the 2019 Association of Financial Advisers National Conference, Zurich chief distribution officer Kristine Brooks, TAL group chief executive and managing director Brett Clark, MLC chief ...

Client ethics the future of advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... practices as the demographics they serve shift. Presenting at the 2019 Association of Financial Advisers' National Conference in Adelaide, Ethics Partners founder Clare Payne used her experience in ethical investing and tobacco exclusions to inform a ...

Risk commissions must be retained: MetLife

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... Want: 2019 MetLife Adviser/Client Research Report, previewed at the Association of Financial Advisers' National Conference in Adelaide. MetLife head of retail sales Matt Lippiatt revealed three in five consumers and small business owners with life ...

Business savvy needed ahead of FASEA deadline

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... Service Brokers chief executive Paul Tynan gave financial advisers at the Association of Financial Advisers' National Conference some food for thought on succession planning and the state of the industry. Reflecting on the last 12 months, Tynan told ...