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FPA strategically updates professional practice code

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has renovated its Code of Professional Practice for the first time in years, bringing several of the FPA's codes and standards un...

Financial planning

FPA opens Value of Advice awards

The VOA awards are designed to promote and define the value of professional advice....

Financial planning

FPA seeks to level the playing field

Financial planners should be able to access the same class relief as superannuation trustees when providing limited, infra-fund advice, according to the chief executive o...

Financial planning

FPA rejects AIOFP claims on CE points assessment

The Financial Planning Association has responded to a decision by Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners (AIOFP) not to use its Continuing Education assess...

Financial planning

Planners blamed for sins of accountants

A media report yesterday that accused financial planners of being under investigation by ASIC was false, with the people in question believed to be marketing themselves a...

Financial planning

FPA running inquiry into managed investment scheme advice

The Financial Planning Association is canvassing its members on their exposure to failed agribusiness managers Great Southern and Timbercorp....

Financial planning

IFSA fee-for-service model 'not true to title' – IFFP

Industry Funds Financial Planning has strong reservations about the veracity of the Investment and Financial Services Association's proposed fee-for-service model within ...

Editorial

Letting go of the baggage

The move by the Association of Financial Advisers to not support the Financial Planning Association’s proposal to transition away from commissions-based financial advice ...

Financial planning

FPA defends position on planner remuneration

Industry body says criticisms of its new planner remuneration guidelines represent short-term thinking and "run counter to the best interests of planners, clients and the...

Financial planning

New CPD policy to be based on soft skills

Compliance and technical education alone does not make you a professional: FPA deputy CEO....

Financial planning

Shadow shopper must be genuine benchmarking study: FPA

Outcomes are sometimes more emotional and misleading....

Editorial

Your reputation is a valuable asset

OVER the past several years the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has, on its members’ behalf, run a substantial promotional campaign on the ‘value of advice’. This ha...