The Financial Planning Association says tax complexity is driving the need for advice at the same time as creating a cost impediment to accessing advice....

The FPA has called on members to promote their professionalism and education to MPs and clients as part of a grass roots effort to overturn negative perceptions of advice...

A hybrid remuneration model is already becoming the default model replacing high upfronts as planning groups continue to haggle with the Financial Services Council for a ...

The FPA’s CFP program enrolment rate jumped 200 per cent compared to previous enrolment numbers....

The FPA has renewed its call for the Government to make up-front advice fees tax deductible and has urged the Budget impact be assessed by the Productivity Commission....

The FPA’s Matthew Rowe has questioned the survivability of a number of financial planning organisations....

FPA backs FSI recommendation that ASIC be given product intervention powers. ...

FPA chief executive Mark Rantall has asked members to imagine a profession that is highly regarded and urged them to get behind recommended changes to higher education an...

The raft of reviews and inquiries into the financial planning sector has created the optimal set of circumstances in which to lift professional and educational standards ...

The FPA will drop its efforts to enshrine 'financial planner' under law claiming it would be automatically protected if recommendations from the PJC are adopted by the Fe...

The FPA has questioned the role of research houses, responsible managers and product issuers in the collapses of forestry managed investment schemes stating it had become...

The FPA’s 11th hour FPEC “gift” rewarded in Parliamentry Committee’s final report....

The financial planning industry was simply outcampaigned on FOFA and must now look to play a longer and more strategic game....

The retirement of Matthew Rowe after two terms as chairman of the FPA represents the closing of a chapter in the organisation’s continuing evolution. ...