Helmich joins FPA board

financial-planning/financial-planning-association/amp-financial-planning/FPA/

20 January 2000
| By Anonymous (not verified) |

AMP Financial Planning managing director Steve Helmich has been appointed to the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) board to represent the large dealer groups.

AMP Financial Planning managing director Steve Helmich has been appointed to the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) board to represent the large dealer groups.

He replaces Colin Scully, who recently resigned for personal and professional rea-sons. Scully is now managing director of Bridges Personal Investment Services, the company he founded.

Despite being the only applicant for the position, Helmich is believed to have the backing of the majority of larger dealer groups (those with 50 or more proper authority holders).

After attending his first strategy meeting, Helmich says: “There is more of a degree of commonality in the FPA than there has ever been in the past.”

“My challenges will be similar to the rest (of the FPA’s board). We want to make sure that financial planning gets the positioning in the market that it deserves, that it is a very strong profession in its own right with high educational standards that is recognised by the public as the first point of call when looking for financial ad-vice.”

Another area of interest to Helmich is helping the FPA’s clearly formulate a strat-egy to take it forward.

“The strategy in the past may have been set with the best intentions, but may not have been implemented or communicated as well as it should have been,” he says.

“To me the execution is probably more important than the planning.”

Read more about:

AUTHOR

Recommended for you

sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

1 month 3 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

4 months ago

Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

4 weeks ago

A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

2 weeks 6 days ago

Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

1 week 4 days ago

TOP PERFORMING FUNDS