FPA

Financial planning

A proposed 38% per adviser increase in fees levied by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has proved too much for the Financial Planning Association whic...

Features

FPA's adviser registration proposal resonates but what will it cost?

Mike Taylor writes that the Financial Planning Association may well have identified a key element of the future of the financial advice industry but no one should overloo...

Financial planning

FPA, AFA and licensees to front key parliamentary committee

The same Parliamentary Committee which has been applying close scrutiny to industry superannuation funds and their financial planning expenditures is about to turn its at...

Financial planning

FPA offers licensees an olive branch of sorts

Licensees need to look to accepting a role as the agencies which develop, train, educate and support registered financial advisers, according to the Financial Planning As...

Financial planning

FPA’s plan receives Hume nod if it delivers a profession

If the Financial Planning Association can prove its proposals for individual adviser registration will hasten the development of a profession and the separation of advice...

Financial planning

Key licensees hit back at FPA adviser registration proposal

The Financial Planning Association’s proposals to have adviser registration over-ride licensing has run into a backlash from key financial planning licensees who say they...

Financial planning

FPA's strategy depends on who has control of an adviser register

The Financial Planning Association has signalled it wants the next best thing to the commercial benefits which would have flowed from being a code-monitoring body, with i...

Financial planning

FPA begins push for planner registrations to replace licensing

The Financial Planning Association wants planners to be registered to provide advice in a move which would leave licensing to the coverage of financial products....

Financial planning

Little appetite for a new financial planning body

Financial planners may not be totally happy with the Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers but they aren’t keen on setting up a new bod...

Financial planning

Planners back merger of FPA and AFA

A merger of the Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers rather than the creation of new financial planning body has emerged as the prefer...

Financial planning

Merger conjecture back on around FPA and AFA

The Financial Planning Association’s announcement of job losses and an organisational restructure driven by declining adviser numbers has reawakened calls for a merger be...

Financial planning

Financial planning organisations – what should happen?

The Financial Planning Association’s restructure has reawakened talk of a merger with the Association of Financial Advisers. What do you believe should happen?...

Financial planning

Redundancies at FPA

The Financial Planning Association is understood to have initiated up to eight redundancies in the face of declining planner numbers and changes to the financial planning...

Financial planning

Media wrong to tar advisers with the one brush

A financial planning and accounting company head has taken the media to task for seeking to tar financial advisers with the one brush when he says the vast majority are t...

Policy & Regulation

FPA welcomes LIC stamping fee extension

It has now called on the Senate to pass the FASEA extension bill, now that the Government has removed the exemption that allows stamping fees on listed investment entitie...