FPEC awards research grants
The FPEC Academic Research Grants recognising commitment to the development of financial planning as an academic discipline have been awarded to University researchers in Queensland and Victoria.
Academics from Deakin University and RMIT in Melbourne and Griffith University in Brisbane received the grants.
Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) chief executive, Dante De Gori said: “Academic research is valuable to the profession and many of the projects have resulted in papers being published in the Financial Planning Research Journal.”
The funding pool for the grant grew by $20,000 this year, with the support for research a collaboration designed to encourage strong relationships between tertiary education and the financial planning sector.
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