The AFA has appointed Deborah Kent to its board as NSW director, replacing Mark Hoskin....
The recent flurry of opinions around making financial planners accountable to the Tax Agent Services Act (TASA) only continues to fuel more flawed arguments that are not ...
Griffith University has secured accreditation from the Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) for its financial planning program....
Should ‘financial planner’ and ‘financial adviser’ be synonymous in the eyes of law?...
ASIC ordered AAA planners to be covered by the dealer group’s PI insurance policy until 29 January, 2014....
The FPA is investigating claims made by dealer group AAA Shares about its affilliation with the FPA and the CFP status of some of its planners....
As the Financial Planning Association (FPA) opens enrolments for its 2013 Certified Financial Planner (CFP) program, chief executive Mark Rantall says the year ahead look...
The global number of Certified Financial Planners (CFPs) grew by more than 8000 over the past 12 months to end 2012 at 139,818, according to the Financial Planning Standa...
2012 will stand as a watershed year for the Australian financial planning industry – the year during which the various elements of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) l...
New platform launched to challenge planners in retail advice market....
Mike Taylor writes that legally enshrining the term ‘financial planner/adviser’ is a necessary step towards creating a barrier to an industry being tarnished by spivs and...
The FPA rewards its top financial planners with the announcement of the 2012 Best Practice Award winners in Melbourne....
After recording a budget deficit of more than half a million dollars in 2010/11, the FPA has emerged into the black in the last financial year, according to its annual re...
AMP's Steve Helmich explains what it means to be a professional financial planner and the value of professionalism for planners and their clients....
AMP's Horizons Academy has linked with the University of New South Wales, allowing graduates to use credits towards financial planning degrees that are then linked to the...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....