AFA Gen Next Podcast: Recent Episodes
AFA Gen Next Podcast
The Gen Next Community of Practice brings together professionals who share a passion for advice and the challenges associated with their career stage. Through the process of sharing information and experience, members learn and develop both personally and professionally and many respected industry professionals will tell you that they started out as members of Gen Next.
AFA Gen Next National Chair, Ashley Mahadeea is joined by Phil Anderson, AFA CEO to discuss the Experienced Adviser Pathway.
In this episode, Phil provides us with a review of 2022 and his thoughts on how 2023 will shape for the adviser community, especially with the possible implementation of some of the QAR recommendations. He also addresses why it is so important to vote yes for the proposed merger between the AFA & FPA.
In this episode, we speak to Deborah Kent, one of the founders of AFA Inspire and Dawn Thomas, the current National Chair of AFA Inspire.
Next year, as we celebrate 10 years since AFA Inspire was established, it is time to look back at some of the achievements of the Inspire Community and pay tribute to its founding members.
Ashley Mahadeea, Gen Next National Chair, is joined in episode 14 by Felicity Cooper and Amie Baker. As the winners of this years Adviser of the Year and Female Excellence in Advice awards they share their stories and why they are passionate about the financial advise profession.
With the AFA’s National Conference, Thrive, fast approaching Ash talks with Patricia Garcia and Morgan Hayward to find out how the Conference is taking shape and what we can expect from the AFA’s first face-to-face National Conference in three years. Patricia and Morgan share all the insider information on the planning process, which speakers they’re most looking forward to seeing as well as the return of the legendary social events and the iconic AFA Awards.
The impact of a cyber attack on your practice could be devastating. Loss of reputation, clients losing confidence in your ability, stolen client data and high recovery costs are some of the negative outcomes that may result from a cyber attack. In this episode, Fraser Jack and Ashley Mahadeea discuss why cybersecurity should be a priority for your practice.
Choosing the most suitable licensing option for your practice can be complex and challenging. The aim of this episode is to help you identify the key factors to consider such as technology and compliance when choosing your licensing path.
Don't miss part two of our 'Empowering women in advice' podcast series, presented by the Gen Next, Practitioner and Inspire Communities of Practice.
Creating safety and economic security for women is a community goal. The financial advice industry is in a powerful position to help close economic inequalities women face.
Another priority is creating a safe and equitable professional environment for women to thrive in the financial advice community.
In this episode, we speak to John Cachia and Tim Henry, both financial advisers and business owners, who have taken significant steps to ensure that their female clients and employees feel safe within the advice process.
Lots of education in the past has been about retail insurance and not much about Group Insurance. Group insurance is cover that is provided to a group of people linked by a common factor such as employees of an employer, members of an association or members of a superannuation fund. This episode aims to provide some great insights on Group Insurance and demonstrates how it can boost practice profitability.
In 2021, cybersecurity authorities in the US, Australia and the UK observed an increase in sophisticated high impact cyber-attacks. 43% of cyber-attacks are targeted at small businesses and 95% of all attacks are done via email hacking. This episode will help you understand the importance of a cyber security plan for your practice. We speak with Karen Stephens founder of BCyber and Fraser Jack founder of The Cyber Collective.
Karen Stephens
Karen is CEO and co-founder of BCyber. After over 20 years in financial services working with Advisers, Karen moved into bringing cybersecurity risk management to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), with a keen focus on financial advice SMEs. BCyber is an agile, innovative group who works with SMEs to protect and grow their business, by demystifying the technical and helping them to identify and address cybersecurity and governance risk gaps.
Fraser Jack
Fraser Jack (Founder of The Cyber Collective) is on a mission to make sure every client in Australia can trust their financial professionals, to safely protect their confidential information, and he would love you to join him. Having run a financial planning practice, working in and around the profession for over 20 years, including many years working with technology, Fraser understands the reasonable steps professionals need to take to protect client data.
Poverty is a daily reality for millions of Australian women 55 and over. There are many compounding factors contributing to this sad reality; lack of superannuation, working part time or casually through long periods of time and the gender pay gap are a few examples. In 2021, the gender pay gap was 14.2 %, meaning that women earn on average $260 per week less than men. Australia’s national gender pay gap has hovered between 13% and 19% for the past two decades.
In this episode, we speak to Dawn Thomas, National Chair for the Inspire Community of Practice and Katherine Hayes, NSW State Director at the AFA. We discuss how financial advice can be a catalyst in improving women’s economic security in Australia
In this episode, we speak to Sam Perera, President of the AFA and Phil Anderson, CEO of the AFA.
We discuss the opportunities and challenges for the advice world in 2022 and the AFA’s commitment to helping advisers navigate through them.
We also learn a little bit more about Sam and Phil on a personal level.
There are many different roles in the financial advice ecosystem, all contributing to the provision of quality financial advice.
The aim of episode 5 is to showcase the importance of three of those roles and understand how they fit in the advice world.
In this episode, we speak to Mark Stubbings, business development professional at Aware Super, Jade Khao, Practice Manager at ANZ and Kamel Saxena, Strategic Paraplanner at Plans of Distinction.
The AFA has always been a vibrant and innovative association that facilitates the emergence of new ideas & new leaders via its communities of practice.
This podcast is the perfect example of the AFA’s commitment to developing new ideas to enhance the sharing of knowledge, skills, and experience to all its members.
In this episode, we speak to Morgan Hayward, AFA Gold Coast Chair, Dawn Thomas, National Chair of the Inspire Community and Charlie Green, National Chair of the Genxt Community.
The aim of Episode 4 is to demonstrate how these young leaders have flourished through their involvement at the AFA, by being given the opportunity to lead.
Since 2019, more than 550 provisional advisers have enrolled in the Professional Year and another 260 are expected to start this quarter. The Professional Year refers to work and other activities that are relevant to developing professional skills to perform the role of providing financial advice. In this episode, Ash speaks to Amelia Constantinidis, Standards Director at FASEA and also with Ben Johnson and Mia Johnson, 2 young advisers currently undertaking their Professional Year. The aim is to give you both a technical and practical understanding of the Professional Year.
n Episode 2 of the AFA Genxt Podcast, Ash speaks to three absolute legends of the financial advice industry: Bill Webster, Deborah Kent and Peter Graham.
The main aim of this podcast is to help advisers navigate through career challenges and stand the test of time.
Financial advisers are continuously facing new challenges and the level of stress within the advice world is peaking due to:
New educational requirements, increased operational costs, insurance commissions drying up, costly compliance regimes among many others.
With a combined 125 years of experience as financial advisers, Bill, Deb and Peter share stories to inspire the young generation of advisers about the nobility of the financial adviser role in society.
They discuss how they have successfully overcome challenges and stay ahead of the game for a very long time.
We hope that you enjoy Episode 2 of the AFA Genxt Podcast.
In the very first episode of the AFA Genxt podcast, Ash is joined by three incredible entrepreneurs in the financial advice industry; Amie Baker, Cara Mollica and Jacqui Henderson to discuss how behavioural money coaching will enable you to get to the heart of your clients’ goals.
As the financial advice industry & the role of the adviser evolves, and with the industry moving more and more towards a profession based on client values and goals as opposed to products, how do you build and nurture relationships to create real & transformational results for your clients?
In this episode, Amie, Cara and Jacqui discuss just that. You will learn how to unlock what is holding your clients back from achieving financial success, how to guide and support them in creating awareness of their money blocks, how to tackle limiting beliefs and how to change their language to one that is more empowering.’