{"id":5703,"date":"2010-04-14T11:44:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T00:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=5703"},"modified":"2020-02-06T08:09:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:09:39","slug":"meet-the-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2010\/04\/14\/meet-the-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an election year, the AFA&#8217;s Government and Policy Committee\u00a0is offering advisers an opportunity to hear from key political figures at two Sydney events over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->On April 20, Shadow Treasurer, <strong>Joe Hockey<\/strong>, will address advisers on the topic: <em>The economic and political outlook for the financial services industry (the Opposition&#8217;s perspective)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hockey will discuss:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His insight into the Parliamentary Joint Committee Inquiry into Financial Products and Services (the Ripoll Inquiry)<\/li>\n<li>His key areas of concern and how these can be addressed in the 2010 federal budget<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On\u00a018 May, in a post 2010 budget review, the Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law, and Human Services, <strong>Chris Bowen<\/strong>, will talk to advisers on the topic of: <em>The future of financial advice in Australia and federal budget review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bowen will cover issues including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Government&#8217;s view on the current state and future direction of the financial advisory profession<\/li>\n<li>His insight into the Ripoll Inquiry<\/li>\n<li>The economic and political outlook for the Financial Services industry<\/li>\n<li>His key areas of concern and how these can\/will be addressed in the 2010 federal budget<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both these events are luncheon functions, being held\u00a0beside Sydney&#8217;s Darling Harbour, and each will feature open forum Q &amp; A opportunities for advisers looking for answers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0All those\u00a0interested to attend can click the following links for further details:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mentorgroup.platformdirect.com.au\/media\/docs\/1268257517-AFA__Sydney_Lunch_Invite_J.Hockey_v8.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Hockey Function<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mentorgroup.platformdirect.com.au\/media\/docs\/1270771989-AFA__Sydney_Lunch_Invite_C.Bowen_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Bowen Function<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an election year, the AFA&#8217;s Government and Policy Committee\u00a0is offering advisers an opportunity to hear from key political figures at two Sydney events over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-conferences-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}