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AMP financial planning executive Steve Helmich has been named the 2012 chairperson-elect of the Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB) Council - an advisory body of th...

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Financial planning

The current FPA advertising campaign is already delivering improved website traffic and increased use of the online Find a Planner tool, according to the FPA....

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Financial planning

As the financial services sector braces for major change flagged by the Federal Government more than a year ago, companies within the industry are becoming increasingly v...

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Financial planning

AMP has launched a financial planning-focused 'university challenge' aimed at giving university students greater access to the financial planning profession....

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Managing director of Merrill Lynch and former financial planner, Jay O'Neil, will soon relocate to Australia from the United States to head up Macquarie Private Bank, Mac...

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Financial planning

With the Government promising to increase education requirements for financial planners through its Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms package, the AMP Horizons Ac...

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Financial planning

Calls have been made by financial planners in the US to follow Australia’s lead for advisers to adhere to a fiduciary standard of care when providing clients with investm...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has reassured its members that its proposed strategic plan will address member discontent with several aspects of the FPA’s polic...

Financial planning

A Victorian planner has queried the new cost structures surrounding the restructured professional FPA....

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Editorial

Another round of research aimed at defining the attitudes of financial planners appears to have confirmed the existence of a generational divide on some of the key questi...

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Financial planning

A Hillross business has been awarded the Advisory Firm of the Year accolade by the dealer group for its ‘future-proof’ business model....

Editorial

As the debate surrounding tertiary education for financial planners moves from whether it should be compulsory to what degree should count, Ashleigh McIntyre writes that ...

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Financial planning

The replacement of outgoing Financial Planning Association CEO Jo-Anne Bloch by Godfrey Pembroke chief Mark Rantall attracted criticism from some quarters of the industry...

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Editorial

The Financial Planning Association has outlined a radical agenda in its attempt to evolve into a professional association but, as Mike Taylor reports, the ultimate transf...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Standards Board has released a guidance document in support of supervised work experience for financial planning entrants....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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