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Financial planning

US media reports have questioned the conduct of the board which runs the Certified Financial Planner designation over its alleged failure to detail the criminal and regul...

Financial planning

Intense lobbying by financial advisers has made Federal parliamentarians aware of their problems with the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime but unce...

Features

As advisers battle with the effects of the Banking Royal Commission, education reforms, the banks exiting wealth, and changes to business structures, Hannah Wootton finds...

Features

Most financial advisers believe financial advice should be tax deductible for clients, but a significant cohort believe it should not be tax deductible for advice around ...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has launched a new CPD platform aimed at aggregating FPA, Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority-accredited options....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has urged the Government to make financial advice tax-deductible if it is provided by ‘registered financial planners’....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has confirmed the inevitable hit on the Certified Financial Planner designation resulting from the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethi...

Financial planning

Financial advisers have been pointing to a document produced by the Financial Planning Association to reinforce their argument for a 12-month extension to the Financial A...

Financial planning

Just days out from the close of enrolments for the Financial Planning Association’s Certified Financial Planning designation, the organisation’s chief executive, Dante De...

Editorial

Even the frequent critics of financial advisers should acknowledge that their calls for an extension to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exam timetabl...

People & Products

The Financial Planning Association of Australia has announced Raquel Netto of The Wealth Mentoring Group as the Semester 1, 2019 winner of the Gwen Fletcher Memorial Awar...

Financial planning

The private contractual nature of Buyer of Last Resort arrangements has served to leave the major planning organisations on the sidelines as advisers see their pay-outs e...

Financial planning

Financial planners face the need to convince the Senate cross-bench of the virtue of allowing more time for them to sit the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authori...

Life/Risk

The Financial Planning Association has given its backing to the standardisation of terms and definitions with respect to insurance with MySuper products but has caused ag...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has backed its push for co-regulation and enforceable codes with a call for confidential information sharing with the Australian Securi...

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