FINANCIAL PLANNING ASSOCIATION

Financial planning

Financial Planning Association chief executive, Dante Dr Gori has sought to soothe financial planners’ frayed nerves over the direction of the Financial Adviser Standards...

Financial planning

Both the Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers will be using the highly-charged feedback received from their members to the Financial A...

Financial planning

Franklin Templeton Investments Australia has launched a web training portal accredited by the Financial Planning Association for continuing professional development....

Financial planning

Financial planning education providers would have to register with and meet the independent education body’s requirements to set out their curriculum as it looks to bring...

Financial planning

The FPA has launched a national campaign backing the value of the Certified Financial Planning designation. ...

Financial planning

Making higher educational standards legally enforceable in the advice industry will bring consistency in global industry standards across the sector, the FPA said....

Editorial

Former FPA chairman, Matthew Rowe argues that the changing dynamics impacting the financial planning industry makes it inevitable that some organisations will wither and ...

Financial planning

The FPA’s Matthew Rowe has questioned the survivability of a number of financial planning organisations....

Superannuation

For some financial planners industry superannuation funds are just another product option while for others they represent an unfair playing field and an attack on the adv...

Editorial

As the financial planning industry proceeds further into 2015 it must accept little or no further change to FOFA but a range of new debates and opportunities....

Financial planning

FPA backs FSI recommendation that ASIC be given product intervention powers. ...

Financial planning

The planning arm of a public service super fund will offer its advice services to other funds looking to provide advice to members....

Financial planning

The FPA has presented the second Gwen Fletcher Memorial Award to Crowe Horwath’s Amy Early....

Financial planning

The financial services industry has broadly welcomed the positives in the FSI final report....

Financial planning

Much as a judge or magistrate has a duty to stay impartial when hearing matters which come before their courts, so too does a Commonwealth regulator....

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

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

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

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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...

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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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