Powered by MOMENTUM MEDIA
moneymanagement logo
 

FPA CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has struck back at Virgin boss Richard Branson’s attack on financial advisers, accusing the flamboyant English billionaire of “swanning...

Funds management

The Financial Planning Association is calling for real estate agents to operate under a national regulatory regime that it hopes will help put a stop to investors being b...

Financial planning

Four out of every five people who consult a financial planner are satisfied with the advice they receive and most people who avoid seeing a financial planner do so becaus...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association will offer an assessment and quality accreditation facility for entry level financial education providers, inching the association a st...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has outsourced the administration of its Certified Financial Planner program, awarding the contract to former competitor - the Securiti...

Accounting

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investments and Financial Services Association (IFSA) have moved to head off a further bid by accountants to get a larger...

Financial planning

Advisers and dealer groups who flout the new industry code of practice on soft dollar payments may be publicly ‘outed’ by the financial planning association (FPA)....

Financial planning

The departing chair of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has sent a strong signal to the association’s members that it is planning to stay on course with reforms t...

Financial planning

Inadequate professional indemnity (PI) insurance is proving a major compliance hurdle for financial planning dealer groups, the Australian Securities and Investments Comm...

Financial planning

An industry scheme to provide planners with professional indemnity cover is close to being set up, but could be scuttled at the eleventh hour because of a reluctance by d...

Financial planning

Financial planners are expected to get the first glimpse at the latest get tough approach to policing the profession this week, with the Financial Planning Association (F...

Financial planning

A double barrelled attack has been unleashed by the Financial Planning Association and Investment and Financial Services Association enforcing tough new guidelines on pay...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association and the Investment and Financial Services Association, have released a finance industry guide on rebates and related payments....

Financial planning

Two Australians will occupy seats on the nine member inaugural international Financial Planning Standards Board following the group’s creation last month to replace the ...

Financial planning

The Coalition has made a $21 million pledge towards improving financial literacy standards as both parties scramble for voter sentiment on the eve of the Federal Election...

sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...

2 weeks ago

It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...

3 weeks ago

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

6 months 3 weeks ago

After last month’s surprise hold, the Reserve Bank of Australia has announced its latest interest rate decision....

2 weeks 2 days ago

A professional year supervisor has been banned for five years after advice provided by his provisional relevant provider was deemed to be inappropriate, the first time th...

4 weeks 1 day ago

WT Financial’s Keith Cullen is eager for its Hubco initiative to see advice firms under its licence trade at multiples which are catching up to those UK and US financial ...

2 weeks 6 days ago