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Advice association shutters

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2021
... impossible." The association said it hopes the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA), Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and Association of Independently Owned Finance Professionals (AIOFP) merge to create one body. "Our only parting ...

De Gori to leave FPA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2021
... day as the Association of Financial Advisers announced the appointment of its new chief. Helen Morgan-Banda will lead the AFA from August 2, replacing Phil Kewin who resigned earlier this year. Most recently she led the Law Society of New Zealand which ...

AFA announces new chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2021
... positions with ANZ (New Zealand) and AMP (New Zealand). She will relocate to Sydney from Wellington for the new role. The AFA said Morgan-Banda was selected after a rigorous selection process. In the six months since Kewin's departure, AFA has been ...

CSLR raises concern among advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2021
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has raised concerns about the cost of the government's proposed Compensation Scheme of Last Resort and the fact that super funds and managed investment schemes are excluded from the proposed regulation. ...

AFA slams new SOA measures

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021
... June 30, which advised trustees to review SOAs with respect to new advice fees charged to members' superannuation accounts. AFA acting chief executive Phil Anderson argued that SOAs are an agreement between a client and their adviser and contains personal ...

Former AFA chief in new role

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2021
... Phil Kewin will become the president of the National Insurance Brokers Association (NIBA) from August 16. Kewin served as the AFA chief executive between March 2017 and April 2021. Prior to that, he was responsible for Zurich Australia's life, advice ...

AFA defends industry against Labor attack

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
... the Labor Party's attack on financial advisers, which paints the profession as dodgy and continues to rip-off consumers. AFA acting chief executive Phil Anderson is calling for an end to the "persecution" of financial advisers, after hearing shadow ...

Advisers win annual renew law relief

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... a bid to stamp out the fee-for-no-service problem that plagued the advice industry. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) acting chief executive Phil Anderson said: "We thank the minister for responding to this issue and coming forward with a solution." ...

Potential small carve out for annual renewal law

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... action against financial advisers who fail to provide a financial disclosure statement. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has identified practicality issues with the new legislation set to take effect on July 1 and is pushing for the changes. ...

AFA appoints partnerships GM

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
... Association of Financial Advisers has appointed a general manager of partnerships who joined from AMP. Cameron Burne joined the AFA in March and was most recently a partnership manager at AMP Financial Planning. He spent over eight years with the AMP ...