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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has warned it will be financial planning clients who ultimately pay for the increased regulatory and other costs being imposed by the G...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has urged caution on the use of regulatory sandbox on the basis that automation doesn’t always equate to innovation when it comes to fi...

Policy & Regulation

The Financial Planning Association has warned that financial planners who dob-in colleagues for misconduct may not be adequately protected under the Government’s new whi...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has suggested naming and shaming to ensure compliance with the code of conduct applying to insurance within superannuation....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has urged giving the Australian Securities and Investments Commission the power to ban anyone in a financial services business whose ac...

Policy & Regulation

The Financial Planning Association has told the Productivity Commission that planners are being strangled by the demands and costs of meeting the needs of seven different...

Financial planning

Figures from the Financial Planning Association of Australia showed women are more likely than men to feel stress about their financial situation....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has urged that the provision of advice and the delivery of member education be key criteria in the selection of default funds....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has urged ASIC to make further improvements to its example statement of advice....

Superannuation

Government risks advantaging wealthy retirees at expense of others with its Budget home down-sizing measure warns industry funds....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has reinforced the differences between planners and accountants – something which it argues require different policy approaches....

Superannuation

Superannuation funds which offer post-retirement products will be inherently conflicted with respect to member best interests and should not be afforded a legislative car...

Editorial

The Financial Planning Association has clearly defined the difference between planners and accountants and why one size does not fit all with respect to remuneration, Mik...

Features

Regtech, artificial intelligence, on-demand online education services, and pre-emptive risk detection are the ways of the future for the financial advice industry to tack...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association is strongly opposing a compensation scheme of last resort but wants product manufactures, research houses and others to pay if it becom...

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