The FPA has stressed the importance of assigning a deadline to new educational standards for the profession in a submission to another parliamentary inquiry. ...

Young Australians are increasingly looking for quick fix advice to make their savings last, while over 50s have their eyes squarely on retirement, FPA research has reveal...

Efforts by the Commonwealth Bank, AMP and NAB/MLC to lift planners’ educational and ethical standards have been lauded by the FPA as evidence its drive towards industry p...

The FPA is using its annual Financial Planning Week to try and change consumer perceptions that financial planners are only for the affluent....

NAB/MLC has joined the push to lift planner education standards....

Mike Taylor writes that Financial Services Council chief executive, John Brogden used his last annual conference address to point to how little the big issues have change...

Issues arising from vertical integration are not to blame for waning trust in financial advisers, with the erosion of professional values a more likely culprit, a Deloitt...

Middletons further develops resourcing in South Australia....

Mike Taylor writes that the drive for higher educational standards for financial planners has served to regenerate criticism of those people who were grandfathered into t...

The referral arrangement between Cbus and FPA will move onto a permanent footing after agreement to roll out the program nation-wide....

FPA chairman, Matthew Rowe wants planners to be individually registered with ASIC as part of a fully enforceable professional code of conduct....

The Commonwealth Bank has moved to lift education standards for planners, supervisors and managers of planners....

Mike Taylor writes that the financial planning industry must lobby the Palmer United Party to defend hard-won FOFA gains. ...

Moves by the Federal Government to introduce an enhanced register of financial advisers are being backed by the FPA and FSC....