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Banned advisers still working in advice: FPA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
The Financial Planning Association of Australia has revealed it is aware of banned financial advisers still working in the advice industry. As part of the government's proposed legislation to implement the recommendations from the Royal Commission ...

Advice groups criticise rushed legislation

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... from the Royal Commission has been met with concern and criticism from financial advice industry groups. Both the Association of Financial Advisers and The Advisers Association have lashed out at Treasury, with the former saying the reforms will make ...

Fight for MySuper advice fees kicks off

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... consultation would stop Australians paying for financial advice from their MySuper accounts. The Financial Planning Association of Australia is among those who oppose the move. The FPA is arguing that it will create two classes of super and take away ...

Industry-made retirement models are self-serving: SCA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2020
... retirement, which formed the basis for its recommendations. SCA said the set of budget standards that were set by the Association of Superannuation Funds Australia (ASFA) are not reliable and overstates how much a person needs for a comfortable retirement. ...

How to ensure clients will pay higher fees

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020
... financial advisers are going to have to make some hard calls when it comes to who they can feasibly continue servicing. Association of Financial Advisers' general manager of policy and professionalism Phil Anderson says financial advisers need to be ...

Life commissions, referral fees still kosher: AFA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
A regulatory update at the Association of Financial Advisers' Roadshow event in Sydney provided financial advisers a clear message on life insurance commissions and referral fees, and took aim at a former FASEA board member in the process. AFA general ...

Freedom Insurance appoints liquidators

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... had sold insurance to man with Down syndrome. In November, it hired as its chair Vamos, former chief executive of Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). In December that year, it cut its life insurance business after a Deloitte review ...

Former AMP, Synchron adviser charged

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... but order to surrender his passport. According to the ASIC Financial Adviser Register, Dick is a member of the Association of Financial Advisers. Earlier this week a 73-year-old man from Nowra in New South Wales was sentenced to a term of two years imprisonment ...

Focus to acquire stake in MEDIQ

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... Agarwal comes from a family of medical practitioners (but has a law degree) and founded MEDIQ in 2010. It won the Association of Financial Advisers' (AFA) Practice of the Year award in 2017. MEDIQ's future plans About 60% of MEDIQ's clients ...

Costs spiral for baby boomers

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... out an extra $1292 a year to live comfortably, and they have the drought and rising house prices to blame. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) found that over the year to the December quarter, costs were up around 2.1% for retiree ...