Hewison takes the helm
Melbourne’s John Hewison has been elected the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) new chairman of the board.
Melbourne’s John Hewison has been elected the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) new chairman of the board.
Hewison was elected after a lengthy FPA board meeting last week, at which chief ex-ecutive Michael McKenna announced his retirement, 14 months before the expiration of his contract.
Hewison says he intends to continue the work currently being done by the FPA in providing input to the government and the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) on financial services industry and taxation reform.
“The FPA has set the agenda for increasing professional standards, ethics and educa-tion standards within financial planning,” he says. “We will continue to ensure the Australian public has a reliable benchmark upon which to measure professional stan-dards of financial planning advice.”
Hewison is managing director of Hewison & Associates in South Yarra and currently serves as both an FPA board member and chair of the FPA’s finance committee.
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