FINANCIAL PLANNING ASSOCIATION

Life/Risk

Australian consumers are more engaged with life insurance than ever before, which could be the cause of increased lapse rates, according to chief executive officer of TAL...

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If a product receives a glowing review by a research house and subsequently fails, should the research house be partly responsible? The Parliamentary Joint Committee rece...

Financial planning

Education provider confident licensees can choose quality training without regulator oversight....

Editorial

There were some raised eyebrows when Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden announced his organisation would be developing policy with the Industry Super...

Editorial

In a two-horse race at the forthcoming Federal Election, Mike Taylor writes that financial services companies are mainly backing self-interest. ...

Financial planning

Dealer group recruitment is mostly frozen until after the Federal Election when grandfathering can be clarified. ...

Financial planning

Legacy products and commission payments associated with them will continue to be a factor in adviser remuneration, but that doesn’t mean the conflict will remain, accordi...

Financial planning

The FOFA legislation once heralded was a long time coming – and with its implementation date has also arrived a raft of questions as to how parts of the legislation will ...

Financial planning

A group of boutique financial planning businesses is planning to launch a pro-bono advice service for people in need, which could be beneficial to the financial planning ...

Financial planning

While recent media reports have painted a less than flattering picture of its former culture, it is important to recognise that Commonwealth Financial Planning has come a...

Top 100

Many financial planning businesses have had to put their growth plans and other projects on hold while preparing for FOFA. Milana Pokrajac looks at opportunities lost....

Top 100

While political leaders came and went and further regulation rumbled through, it seemed the financial planning sector spent the last 12 months in a holding pattern with m...

Financial planning

AMP will make it mandatory for nearly 2000 planners to be members of a professional association. ...

Financial planning

FPA chief executive officer Mark Rantall calls for planners to set industry moral compass....

Financial planning

The legislation to enshrine the term ‘financial planner/adviser’ has failed to make it into the Senate but the FPA has not given up....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 2 weeks ago

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

5 months 3 weeks ago

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

7 months 3 weeks ago

The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

1 week 5 days ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

3 weeks 6 days ago

ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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