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AFA doubles in four years

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
... has doubled its membership in four years, growing its ranks by more than 25 per cent this year. Jim Taggart, national president at the AFA, said the association has reacted to member calls for representation across the government, the regulator, the ...

AFA calls for more consultation on education

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... ingredient in providing quality advice but so is experience and learning from your peers," said Jim Taggart, national president at the AFA. "[However] education ensures advisers have the right skills and knowledge to do the job is only one key part of ...

RSL calls for super revamp

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
... alternative pension index rose by almost double the consumer price index in the first half of this year. Bill Crews, national president at the RSL, said the government has missed the opportunity to correct a significant inequity for military superannuants. ...

Focus on value not fees: AFA

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
... commissions should not be abolished because the existing system promotes choice and value among clients. AFA national president Dennis Bateman stated that mandating a single model of remuneration is wrong. Bateman said such a model would distract everyone ...

Clitheroe and Kelty honoured

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
... 1991 and 1992 he was vice president of the Financial Planning Association and between 1993 to 1994 was the FPA national president.

RSL snubs proposed super changes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... in December, however it has not declared it will implement any of the recommended changes at this stage. RSL national president, Bill Crews, said the RSL had rejected the proposed changes because it reduced the defined benefit contribution amount and ...

New exec team to drive AFA expansion

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
... of the cities, therefore these people - advisers and clients - need the services of someone like the AFA," national president, Dennis Bateman, said. Bateman said it was important AFA strategy, services and initiatives remained in the hands of practitioners. ...

AFA unveils new board

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
... the AFA board, but the rest of the line-up comprises new additions. Dennis Bateman has taken over the role of national president from outgoing head Michael Murphy, with Mark Hawes as national treasurer, Jim Taggart taking responsibility for New South ...

Government must intervene more to promote savings: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
... government policy to ready us for the economic impacts of the ageing population. Ivan Deveson, chairman and national president of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), in a speech to be delivered in Madrid today, is warning that ...

Babcock & Brown appoints former senator

Babcock & Brown has appointed former senator and ALP National President Stephen Loosley to provide strategic advice on the firm's corporate and public policy. Prior to his new role, Loosley was a senior partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal where ...