The AFA Awards ceremony will also take place during the conference, aiming to showcase excellence in advice industry. Winners will be announced during the gala dinner.
Key speaker and session details will be released later this month.
AFA chief executive Philip Kewin said the conference would be focusing on members coming together to explore progressive ideas and create opportunities out of the challenges the sector is facing.
The body has three pillars supporting the theme of united: uncover, unwind and understand.
“The conference offers delegates the opportunities to cover innovative ways to provide valuable advice to more people,” Mr Kewin said.
“Our conferences have always helped advisers build supportive networks to share knowledge and take time out from the pressures of every day to build leadership and wellbeing skills so that they and their businesses can thrive.
“We know that maintaining CPD hours is a big focus, so we’ll be working to ensure people walk away with both the pragmatic tools and the education they need to facilitate the delivery of outstanding client advice.”
Early bird registration is now open, to be closed off on 30 June.
[quote=ph]unfortunately advisers have to belong to a professional body as part of their ASIC registration. if the AIOFP could become the other professional body then you have a place that is professional and taking the govt to the High Court over ending trail commissions and fighting the LIF situation. go to their facebook page and join.[/quote]
No you don’t. Just do the required subjects and therefore you can be TASA compliant without joining a professional body. That’s what I’ve done.
unfortunately advisers have to belong to a professional body as part of their ASIC registration. if the AIOFP could become the other professional body then you have a place that is professional and taking the govt to the High Court over ending trail commissions and fighting the LIF situation. go to their facebook page and join.
wishing Terry good luck at court today. his trial begins today.
good luck Tezza
the best thing that could happen to financial advice is for FPA and AFA to implode because all members have resigned. then we can start anew
calling at least 1 adviser today. will you please not renew your membership of the AFA or FPA.
anyone? just 1 is all i need today. please reply and confirm.
friends, this is the time to make our voices heard. please make your vote count. DO NOT RENEW.
let’s stand together and SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
I’ve been calling on advisers – repeatedly, even begging – them to cancel their memberships of the AFA and FPA, like I have done, and perhaps many others.
cancelling membership is the ONLY THING THEY WILL LISTEN TO. it means they won’t have money to pay their salaries and will have to find a new job somewhere else.
look at CPA australia. nothing happened there as members were complacent and life goes on with no consequence for anyone, except for the poor bloke, whistle-blower who tried to bring them to account. he is now shunned like a leper and struggling to make ends meet (source: AFR).
I urge all fair minded advisers to consider and decide for themselves.
i’m calling for 5,000 resignations at least. we can do it together.
I agree its time for advisers the band together by NOT SUPPORTING THIS CONFERENCE. Nothing will say more to an industry body that has failed than a room empty of advisers and full of product manufacturers. FPA members should be doing the same.
We need to band together and shout NO CONFIDENCE by simply not showing up to this.
Whats the point? We were sold out by both the AFA and FPA to the FSC over the LIF. Both of them are saying they now want to be united on commissions but again what’s the point? They are not fighting for a workable commission structure and why would any adviser in risk (most of the AFA’s membership) want to start the FASEA nightmare for a 60/20 2 year clawback which doesn’t cover costs.
Unless the AFA and FPA start to act more like the mortgage broker bodies they are not worth supporting and this conference will just be more time and money wasted.
advisers will band together – at the local RSL- after they have gotten out of this godforsaken industry.
Every adviser in Australia needs to cancel their FPA and AFA memberships for their appalling and disgraceful behaviour via stealth tactics to destroy your business and the whole industry.
What the FPA has done and what the AFA stood back and watched happen is utterly disgusting.
Both of these greedy opportunistic parasitic organisations need to be shut down.
Any adviser supporting these two criminal companies need to be shunned and slapped into reality.
Perhaps in the spirit of Unity there should be consistency/ Unity in membership fees? The first class get their employer to pay for their members and get discounts and were forced to join in order for their employer to avoid further scrutiny by ASIC…examples include CBA Advice scandals.
The second class pay full freight and join because they want to or are forced to due to meeting TPB requirements.
However I guess now that we all 99% of advisers all work for AMP and get everything paid for us… it’s only natural we all get banned together.
I thought every adviser left the afa like I did when they sold us down the river to the fsc and there mates in the banks.