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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association of Australia would like the next Parliament to prioritise the CSLR, education requirements, ASIC’s funding model, ‘finfluencers’ regula...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association of Australia has welcomed the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s clamping down on the use of finfluencers....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association of Australia has welcomed the announcement by the Australian Financial Complaints Authority about proposed changes to its funding model...

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Financial planning

Financial planning remains a male-dominated industry and women are held back by fear from making job moves to senior appointments....

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Features

The latest proposal suggested by the financial advice industry is to move to one focused on principle-based legislation and for changes to the Corporations Act, writes La...

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Financial planning

Renaming ‘general advice’ and revising the test for a sophisticated investors are among changes proposed by the Financial Planning Association of Australia to ease the bu...

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Financial planning

As advisers exit the industry, the number of Certified Financial Planners in Australia has declined by 4% but figures globally have now passed 200,000....

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Features

The examples of failed managed investment schemes have reopened the question around the Government’s proposed model for a Compensation Scheme of Last Resort, writes Oksan...

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Financial planning

Following the release of the Senate Economic Legislation Committee’s Compensation Scheme of Last Resort report, the Financial Planning Association of Australia is once ag...

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Accounting

Having completed their educational qualifications, those advisers who remain in the industry are reporting being “run off their feet” with new clients....

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The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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