THE FINANCIAL PLANNING ASSOCIATION

Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has extended recognition of the course value of the Financial Planning Association’s Certified Financial Planner desi...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has warned the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to be mindful of how product manufacturers may seek to recoup costs whe...

Policy & Regulation

The Financial Planning Association has urged the Federal Government to go further in ensuring that people are not inadvertently disadvantaged by lifting the Age Pension a...

Financial planning

The Government has imposed the administrative burden of redistributing grandfathered remuneration on product issuers rather than onto financial advisers or licensees....

Financial planning

US media reports have questioned the conduct of the board which runs the Certified Financial Planner designation over its alleged failure to detail the criminal and regul...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has launched a new CPD platform aimed at aggregating FPA, Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority-accredited options....

Life/Risk

The Financial Planning Association has given its backing to the standardisation of terms and definitions with respect to insurance with MySuper products but has caused ag...

Life/Risk

The financial planning industry’s two major member associations have confirmed that they will be taking a joint approach to the regulator’s life insurance review, with re...

Financial planning

The international financial advice community has for the first time benchmarked how financial advisers come to know their clients....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has bluntly told the Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board that the accounting fee for service model is not transferable ...

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