{"id":64717,"date":"2023-03-02T10:44:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T23:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=64717"},"modified":"2024-10-30T08:41:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T22:41:57","slug":"afa-fpa-merger-represents-significant-milestone-zurich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2023\/03\/02\/afa-fpa-merger-represents-significant-milestone-zurich\/","title":{"rendered":"AFA\/FPA Merger Represents Significant Milestone &#8211; Zurich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich Financial Services Australia has welcomed the successful vote by AFA and FPA members to merge the two associations, seeing it as representing a significant milestone for the industry.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the insurer says the creation of the Financial Advice Association of Australia Limited \u201c\u2026represents a significant milestone for the industry and a further demonstration of the professionalisation of financial advice in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64731\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64731\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/03\/Kieran-Forde-e1677713907995.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-64731\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/03\/Kieran-Forde-e1677713907995.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kieran Forde &#8230;the merger will create immediate benefits&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Kieran Forde,<\/strong> Chief Distribution Officer, Life &amp; Investments, Zurich Australia says that members of these associations \u201c\u2026should be congratulated for recognising the importance of strong and united representation given the significant regulatory and market forces impacting the profession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He adds that Zurich \u201c\u2026 is confident that this merger will create immediate benefits, not just for members, but also for consumers and the broader economy as we seek to enhance access to quality and affordable advice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich Financial Services Australia has welcomed the successful vote by AFA and FPA members to merge the two associations, seeing it as representing a significant milestone for the industry. A statement from the insurer says the creation of the Financial Advice Association of Australia Limited \u201c\u2026represents a significant milestone for the industry and a further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":64722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-associations","category-company-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64717","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=64717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}