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The Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) attempt to set up its own in house professional indemnity (PI) insurance scheme for members has suffered a setback as a result ...

Financial planning

The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services is expected to rule against disclosure of commissions on risk products when it tables its final r...

Financial planning

Small dealer groups are back on the agenda as members of three bodies representing small planning groups have agreed to meet to discuss the creation of a national executi...

Financial planning

An international battle between controllers of the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and Chartered Financial Practitioner (ChFP) designations has erupted in the Asia-Paci...

Financial planning

The Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners (AIOFP) has attacked the Financial Planning Association over its handling of recent industry criticism brought b...

Financial planning

A war of words has begun between three industry bodies over disclosure of commissions on risk products and the viability of the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA)....

Financial planning

Commonwealth Financial Solutions (CFS) and the Colonial Master Fund have suffered an embarrassing breach in the security of their files when a number of clients with the ...

Financial planning

If you need proof the last year was dominated by regulatory and industry issues, look no further than Joe Nowak....

Financial planning

FINANCIAL Planning consultant Paul Resnik is preparing to put his money where his mouth is with plans to launch a chain of financial planning offices....

Financial planning

FINANCIAL advisers will not need to disclose commission on risk products thanks to the lobbying efforts of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA)....

Financial planning

Tasmanian based financial adviser Robin Yates has been elected the new president of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA)....

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) used a meeting last week of the Financial Services Reform (FSR) Implementation Consultative Committee to call for clarificatio...

Financial planning

THE increasingly bitter dispute between the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) over financial planning designations has ...

Financial planning

There is a saying that old advisers never die, they just re-write their life insurance policies....

Financial planning

IT IS easy to see both sides of the argument in what could quickly escalate into a full blown legal dispute between the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Assoc...

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