Knowledge-intensive jobs are the biggest hiring trend as skilled, experienced, and educated financial planners are in short supply according to Hays....
The CFP designation remains a potent marketing tool for the Financial Planning Association but will the Government's legislative amendments around ethics and education ma...
The hard-line claims handling practices of insurers are doing more damage to the viability of group insurance than the involvement of lawyers, according to a leading plai...
The FPA’s CFP program enrolment rate jumped 200 per cent compared to previous enrolment numbers....
The FPA has reported a 100 per cent surge in its CFP program take up after the CBA and AMP raised educational standards following scandals at the CBA and Macquarie Bank....
Higher standards is the mantra but have planners dragged the chain on lifting them? ...
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...
Inaugural Gwen Fletcher Memorial Award winner, Erin Shields, plans to continue along the path by the late ‘First Lady of financial planning’....
Advisers must be extremely diligent about ensuring they fulfill their duty of care, as two recent court cases have shown. David Glen runs through the post-FOFA adviser ch...
The Senate Committee reviewing ASIC has lambasted ASIC and CommFP and signalled further quizzing of compensation arrangements....
FPA aims to grow members and boost consumer engagement with NAB Wealth executive hire....
Commonwealth Financial Planning whistleblower Jeffrey Morris claims ASIC failed to act to cover its own incompetence....
Financial planning industry veteran Gwen Fletcher passes away aged 94....
Hiring certified financial planner (CFP)-qualified financial advisers has led to a less than 1 per cent client attrition rate per annum, State Super Financial Services sa...
Certified financial planner (CFP) professionals are more productive, profitable, and reduce compliance risk compared to financial planners without certification. ...
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....