IFA or Ifa may refer to:
Organisations
Economics
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Independent financial adviser
Independent financial advisers (IFAs) are professionals who offer independent advice on financial matters to their clients and recommend suitable financial products from the ''whole of the market''. The term was developed to reflect a United Kingd ...
, a type of financial services professional in the UK
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Index Fund Advisors
Index Fund Advisors (IFA) is a registered investment advisor (RIA) headquartered in Irvine, California, with representatives in several locations across the United States. The company was founded on March 5, 1999 by Mark T. Hebner, former presid ...
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Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries is the professional body which represents and regulates actuaries in the United Kingdom.
History
The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries came into being on 1 August 2010 as a result of the merger of the Ins ...
, representing actuaries in the UK
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Institute of Actuaries
The Institute of Actuaries was one of the two professional bodies which represented actuaries in the United Kingdom. The institute was based in England, while the other body, the Faculty of Actuaries, was based in Scotland. While the Institute an ...
, in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
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Faculty of Actuaries
The Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland was the professional body representing actuaries in Scotland. The Faculty of Actuaries was one of two actuarial bodies in the UK, the other was the Institute of Actuaries, which was a separate body in Englan ...
, in Scotland
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Institute of Financial Accountants
The Institute of Financial Accountants (IFA) is a professional accountacy body representing and providing certification for financial accountants in the United Kingdom. The IFA is a full member of the International Federation of Accountants.
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, representing accountants in the UK
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International Fiscal Association
The International Fiscal Association (IFA) was established in 1938 as the only non-governmental and non-sectoral international organisation dealing with fiscal matters. Its headquarters are in the Netherlands. The objects of IFA are the study and a ...
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International Forfaiting Association
Sports
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Indian Football Association
The Indian Football Association, abbreviated as IFA, is the organisation that administers association football in the state of West Bengal, India. It is the oldest Football Association in India and was founded in 1893. Among the founders was form ...
, West Bengal, India
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Indoor Football Alliance
Supreme Indoor Football (SIF) is an inactive professional indoor football league based in the Southeastern United States.
The SIF was originally the creation of the Cape Fear Heroes ownership. During the league's initial launch in 2015, it was ...
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Intercollegiate Fencing Association
The Intercollegiate Fencing Association (IFA) was the oldest collegiate fencing conference in the United States. It is affiliated with the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC).
Membership
The IFA has 11 members. Cornell only competes in wome ...
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Intercollegiate Football Association
The Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA), also known as the American Intercollegiate Football Association, was one of the earliest college football rules-making and scheduling organizations in existence; it was active from the 1873 to 1893 ...
, college football organization, 1873–1893
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International Fistball Association
The International Fistball Association (IFA) is the umbrella organization of all national fistball
Fistball is a sport of European origin, primarily played in the German-speaking nations of Austria, Germany and Switzerland, as well as in ...
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Iraq Football Association
The Iraq Football Association (IFA) ( ar, الاتحاد العراقي لكرة القدم) is the governing body of football in Iraq, controlling the Iraqi national team and the Iraqi Premier League. The Iraqi Football Association was founded ...
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Irish Football Association
The Irish Football Association (IFA) is the governing body for association football in Northern Ireland. It organised the Ireland national football team from 1880 to 1950, which after 1954, became the Northern Ireland national football team.
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, in Northern Ireland
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Islamabad Football Association
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Israel Football Association
The Israel Football Association (IFA; he, ההתאחדות לכדורגל בישראל, ''HaHit'aḥdut leKaduregel beIsrael'', literally "The Association of Football in Israel") is the governing body of football in Israel. It organizes a varie ...
Other organizations
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Illinois Family Action
The Illinois Family Institute (IFI) is a Christian organization based in Tinley Park, Illinois. Founded in 1990, its stated mission is "upholding and re-affirming marriage, family, life and liberty in Illinois", and it is affiliated with the Ame ...
, the lobbying arm of the Illinois Family Institute in the US
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India Foundation for the Arts
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) is a national, non-profit, the grantmaking organisation that supports the practice, research and education in the arts in India. Established as a public trust in 1993, IFA is headquartered in Bangalore. Its fo ...
, a philanthropic organization
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Indo-GDR Friendship Association, in India
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Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau
''Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau'' ("Industrial Association for Vehicle Construction"), usually abbreviated as IFA, was a conglomerate and a union of companies for vehicle construction in the former East Germany.
IFA produced bicycles, motorcycles ...
, East German vehicle manufacturer
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Institute for Archaeologists
The Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA) is a professional organisation for archaeologists working in the United Kingdom and overseas. It was founded in 1982, and at 21 July 2020 had 3,931 members overall, of whom 3,033 were accredited ...
, in the UK
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Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii group that maintains the Mauna Kea Observatory
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Institute for Astronomy (Edinburgh)
The University of Edinburgh School of Physics and Astronomy is the physics department of the University of Edinburgh. The School was formed in 1993 by a merger of the Department of Physics and the Department of Astronomy, both at the University ...
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, a German research institute near Bonn
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International Federation on Ageing
The International Federation on Ageing (IFA; french: Fédération Internationale du Vieillissement) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1973 and based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada working in the field of ageing, older person ...
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International Fertilizer Industry Association
The International Fertilizer Association (IFA) promotes the efficient and responsible production,distribution and use of plant nutrients to enable sustainable agricultural systems. IFA a membership consists of more than 400 entities from producers ...
, represents the global fertilizer industry
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International of Anarchist Federations
Contemporary anarchism within the history of anarchism is the period of the anarchist movement continuing from the end of World War II and into the present. Since the last third of the 20th century, anarchists have been involved in anti-globalisa ...
, L'international des Federations Anarchistes
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Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin
The IFA ( ) or Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin (International radio exhibition Berlin, a.k.a. 'Berlin Radio Show') is one of the oldest industrial exhibitions in Germany. Between 1924 and 1939 it was an annual event, but from 1950 it was ...
, a consumer electronics trade fair
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Irish Farmers' Association
The Irish Farmers' Association (IFA) ( Irish: ''Feirmeoirí Aontaithe na hÉireann'') is a national organisation to represent the interests of all sectors of farming in the Republic of Ireland. The IFA is Ireland's largest farming representative ...
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New York University Institute of Fine Arts
The Institute of Fine Arts (IFA) of New York University is dedicated to graduate teaching and advanced research in the history of art, archaeology and the conservation and technology of works of art. It offers Master of Arts and Doctor of Philoso ...
, a graduate school of New York University
Other uses
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Ifá, a system of divination that originated in West Africa
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Inter-Island Ferry Authority, a ferry service in Alaska
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Interconnexion France-Angleterre, the
HVDC Cross-Channel
The HVDC Cross-Channel (french: Interconnexion France Angleterre IFA 2000) is the 73 km long high-voltage direct current (HVDC) interconnector that operates since 1986 under the English Channel between the continental European grid at Bonningues ...
interconnector
An interconnector (also known as a DC tie in the USA) is a structure which enables high voltage DC electricity to flow between electrical grids. An electrical interconnector allows electricity to flow between separate AC networks, or to link sy ...
for the transfer of electricity between France and England
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Interest Flooding Attack, a denial-of-service attack
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Interferometer, a device to measure the interference pattern caused by differing waves
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Indirect Fluorescent Antibody, test
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Freund's adjuvant
Freund's adjuvant is a solution of antigen emulsified in mineral oil and used as an immunopotentiator (booster). The complete form, Freund's Complete Adjuvant (FCA or CFA) is composed of inactivated and dried mycobacteria (usually '' M. tuberculo ...
, an antigen solution to boost the immune system
* In-Flight Abort, test in spaceflight industry
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Aífe
(Old Irish), spelled () in Modern Irish, is a character from the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. She appears in the sagas '' Tochmarc Emire'' ("the wooing of Emer") and '' Aided Óenfhir Aífe'' ("the death of Aífe's only son"). In ''Tochmarc ...
, a character in Irish mythology
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Aoife
Aoife ( , ) is an Irish feminine given name. The name is probably derived from the Irish Gaelic ''aoibh'', which means "beauty" or "radiance".
It has been compared to the Gaulish name ''Esvios'' (Latinized ''Esuvius'', feminine ''Esuvia''), whic ...
, an Irish given name
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Ivar F. Andresen (1896–1940), Norwegian opera singer
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