{"id":61585,"date":"2022-06-30T13:32:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T03:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=61585"},"modified":"2022-07-05T17:56:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T07:56:02","slug":"two-adviser-associations-merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2022\/06\/30\/two-adviser-associations-merge\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Adviser Associations Merge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Authorised Representatives Association, which represents around 90 Charter Financial Planning advice businesses and approximately 250 advisers, have voted to close the 40-year-old association and join The Advisers Association.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from TAA says ARA members voted for the closure of the association at an extraordinary general meeting in April.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51391\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51391\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/08\/Neil-Macdonald-e1596495052485.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-51391\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/08\/Neil-Macdonald-e1596495052485-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/08\/Neil-Macdonald-e1596495052485-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/08\/Neil-Macdonald-e1596495052485.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neil Macdonald &#8230;the merger will also allow for greater collaboration&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In welcoming ARA members into TAA, CEO <strong>Neil Macdonald<\/strong> says his association is looking forward to representing ARA members \u201c\u2026and supporting them as they help clients achieve better financial outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our two associations have a long history of working closely together via numerous consultation groups and this merger will give us an even stronger voice in what continue to be challenging times for advisers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Macdonald says the merger will also allow for greater collaboration.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;in order to move forward, the financial advice community needs to genuinely collaborate..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAs we have consistently said, in order to move forward, the financial advice community needs to genuinely collaborate. The merger will enable us to deliver a more united message in our ongoing communications not only within our own community, but also with the media and with the government,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Authorised Representatives Association, which represents around 90 Charter Financial Planning advice businesses and approximately 250 advisers, have voted to close the 40-year-old association and join The Advisers Association. A statement from TAA says ARA members voted for the closure of the association at an extraordinary general meeting in April. In welcoming ARA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":61589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-associations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61585","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}