FPA CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Financial planning

The recent restructure of the FPA has not stemmed staff departures with public policy and government relations manager Con Hristodoulidis and international and certificat...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is confident its membership is well-positioned to endure any future shadow shopping surveys due to marked improvements in industr...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has declared its membership is geared for Financial Services Reform (FSR), with 97 per cent of its principal members having recei...

Financial planning

It is not every financial planner who can count a meeting with the Prime Minister as a career highlight....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has had five new faces elected to its board after the association’s members were called to elect candidates to replace outgoing m...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has voiced opposition to Labor’s proposed ban on commissions for superannuation guarantee contributions, arguing this would make ...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) have hit out at the possible increased regulatory powers of the Aust...

Financial planning

Last week a senate committee released its recommendations on retirement income and as Freya Purnell writes politicians remain divided on the issue despite widespread indu...

Financial planning

Some former high-flying industry faces have disappeared from the financial planning landscape altogether. Julie Bennett and Mike Taylor report....

Financial planning

A national scheme of professional standards legislation will lower the cost of professional indemnity (PI) insurance and remove restrictions on the services offered by fi...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has criticised the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) Public Liability and Professional Indemnity Insurance ...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA), in an attempt to stave off criticism it fails to fully represent its membership base, has appointed two staffers to focus solely...

Editorial

The industry is full of elephants, says Rob Keavney, but the elephants’ days are numbered....

Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has confirmed an exclusive report from Money Management over a week ago that the SuperEC and MFundEC electroni...

Financial planning

The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has backed the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) recent comments in defending the Financial Services Reform ...

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