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Financial planning

Financial Planning Association chief executive, Dante De Gori has pointed to the impacts of increasing regulatory oversight with the cost of generating a statement of adv...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has questioned the need for a Compensation Scheme of Last Resort when the Government has for nearly a decade failed to address the prob...

Financial planning

The benefits of comprehensive financial advice significantly outweigh those delivered by intra-fund advice and this should be recognised within the Retirement Income Syst...

Financial planning

The two associations have come together to help those impacted by the bushfires to rebuild financially....

Financial planning

Deakin University’s Master of Financial Planning degree will now include the CFP Certification Program under a new partnership with the Financial Planning Association of ...

Financial planning

The Government’s latest exposure draft legislation around the recommendations of the Hayne Royal Commission suggest little has been paid to the lobbying of the major fina...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has sought to make very sure that advisers do not get negatively roped into the current debate around stamping fee exemptions....

Financial planning

Renaming ‘general advice’ will be crucial to the manner in which digital advice is delivered in Australia and how it sits alongside traditional advice models, according t...

Life/Risk

Strong rules need to be written to ensure that financial advice given by insurance companies or their representatives at claim time is clearly recognised for what it is –...

Financial planning

AMP is partnering with its advisers to offer free financial advice to Australians who suffered loss due to the recent bushfires....

Financial planning

Financial Planning Association of Australia members will be able to volunteer their time to help financial rebuild Australians impacted by bushfires....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been accused of unilaterally and quietly raising the per adviser levy to $1,142....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has created a guide to help planners digitally evolve their statements of advice....

Financial planning

Submissions directed to Treasury around the end of grandfathering revealed little significant resistance but genuine concern around how client rebates should work....

Policy & Regulation

The Government may have promised action months ago, but the legislation which will extend the time-frames applying to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority...

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