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The Financial Planning Association has blasted the Federal Treasury for seeking to push forward with a “retirement covenant” which it claims effectively mandates the crea...

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Treasury has told the Royal Commission that industry self-regulation may fall short if industry codes of practice are neither uniform nor unenforceable....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission was left with little discretion around the future of Dover Financial Services with the licensee exercising its right ...

Financial planning

Questions are being asked around why the financial planning community is being blamed when the Government has done little about legacy products in nearly two decades....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has acknowledged that obtaining and then maintaining financial planner code-monitoring status represents a substantial and expensive ch...

Features

Mike Taylor writes that for the major financial planning organisations the future resides in looking beyond the Royal Commission and reaping the benefits which flow from ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled that planner bodies will have to put aside their fear of losing members if they are to succeed as co-re...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has told the Royal Commission that grandfathered commission arrangements should be phased out over the next three years....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association and other industry groups have warned that many people will need advice to navigate the Government’s Budget changes....

Financial planning

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry has already canvassed a tougher and more effective regulatory and lice...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers are scheduled to appear before the Royal Commission today with the focus expected to be on ho...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has found that approximately 60 per cent of its members are degree-qualified, compared to 35 per cent industry-wide....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has announced Sharon Taylor’s appointment as chair of the Financial Planning Education Council, following Mark Brimble’s departure in F...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has unsurprisingly had an overwhelming response to its questionnaire on adviser education reforms, with 1,700 members airing their worr...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has urged its members to voice their concerns about the latest Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority position so they can be...

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