{"id":64461,"date":"2023-02-14T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T00:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=64461"},"modified":"2024-10-30T08:42:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T22:42:24","slug":"thumbs-up-for-faa-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2023\/02\/14\/thumbs-up-for-faa-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Thumbs-Up for FAA Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"polls-295\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t\t<div class=\"pollHeader\"><strong>The \u2018Financial Advice Association\u2019 is a good name for a merged AFA\/FPA, which appropriately respects the heritage of both organisations.<\/strong><\/div><div id=\"polls-295-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li>Agree <small>(61%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 61%\" title=\"Agree (61% | 46 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Disagree <small>(26%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 26%\" title=\"Disagree (26% | 20 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Not sure <small>(13%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 13%\" title=\"Not sure (13% | 10 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_295_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"39a08bca20\" \/>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Our latest poll results suggest general approval from the adviser community for the name of the proposed association that would be created by a merged AFA and FPA.<\/p>\n<p>As we go to print, six in 10 advisers think the &#8216;Financial Advice Association&#8217; is a good name which appropriately respects the heritage of both organisations. Around one in four (27%) disagree, however, with the remainder undecided at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>This conversation will become irrelevant if the proposed merger between the two associations does not eventuate. If members vote in favour, however, it appears &#8211; as can be the case for many issues and debates &#8211; the majority of what will be a combined member community will be happy with then new name, but it clearly won&#8217;t be universally embraced.<\/p>\n<p>In similar circumstances a few years ago, the two main adviser associations in New Zealand &#8211; The Professional Advisers Association and the Institute of Financial Advisers &#8211; joined forces to become <a href=\"https:\/\/financialadvice.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Financial Advice New Zealand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, &#8216;Financial Advice Australia&#8217; isn&#8217;t getting a run on this side of the Tasman, but we welcome your further views on the proposed name of &#8216;Financial Advice Association of Australia Limited&#8217;, developed following extensive member consultation, as our poll remains open for another week&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our latest poll results suggest general approval from the adviser community for the name of the proposed association that would be created by a merged AFA and FPA. As we go to print, six in 10 advisers think the &#8216;Financial Advice Association&#8217; is a good name which appropriately respects the heritage of both organisations. Around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-associations","category-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64461","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=64461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}