FINANCIAL PLANNING ASSOCIATION

Financial planning

The Code Monitoring Authority established by the major financial planning associations will be ready to roll if, and when, it gains sign-off from the Australian Securitie...

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Financial planning

The Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Services Technology, Senator Jane Hume has again stopped short of giving any undertaking on ex...

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Financial planning

The chief executive of CountPlus and former Financial Planning Association chair, Matthew Rowe, has resigned from the board of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics ...

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that the Australian financial advice industry is embarking on a transition which will be completed in 2024 with the result that it will be very differe...

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Financial planning

Australians spend $19.8 billion each year buying presents for friends, family and even their pets according to research for this week’s Financial Planning Week. ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association, Association of Financial Advisers and other professional association backers will today lodge a formal application with ASIC to operat...

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Policy & Regulation

The number of complaints received about individual firms should be available to financial services customers, according to the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trus...

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Policy & Regulation

Unscrupulous employers who use their employees’ salary sacrifice superannuation contribution to reduce their superannuation guarantee obligations should be stopped, accor...

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Financial planning

Intense lobbying by financial advisers has made Federal parliamentarians aware of their problems with the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime but unce...

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Features

Most financial advisers believe financial advice should be tax deductible for clients, but a significant cohort believe it should not be tax deductible for advice around ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has confirmed the inevitable hit on the Certified Financial Planner designation resulting from the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethi...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers have been pointing to a document produced by the Financial Planning Association to reinforce their argument for a 12-month extension to the Financial A...

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Financial planning

Just days out from the close of enrolments for the Financial Planning Association’s Certified Financial Planning designation, the organisation’s chief executive, Dante De...

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Editorial

Even the frequent critics of financial advisers should acknowledge that their calls for an extension to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exam timetabl...

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Financial planning

The private contractual nature of Buyer of Last Resort arrangements has served to leave the major planning organisations on the sidelines as advisers see their pay-outs e...

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JOHN GILLIES

Might be a bit different to i the past where at most there was one man from the industry on the loaded enquiry boards a...

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Simon

Who get's the $10M? Where does the money go?? Might it end up in the CSLR to financially assist duped investors??? ...

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Squeaky'21

My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

9 months 2 weeks ago

A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months 1 week ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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