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Knowledge-intensive jobs are the biggest hiring trend as skilled, experienced, and educated financial planners are in short supply according to Hays....

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Editorial

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...

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Life/Risk

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...

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Financial planning

The FPA’s CFP program enrolment rate jumped 200 per cent compared to previous enrolment numbers....

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Financial planning

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....

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Financial planning

Higher standards is the mantra but have planners dragged the chain on lifting them? ...

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Editorial

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...

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Financial planning

Inaugural Gwen Fletcher Memorial Award winner, Erin Shields, plans to continue along the path by the late ‘First Lady of financial planning’....

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Life/Risk

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...

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Financial planning

The Senate Committee reviewing ASIC has lambasted ASIC and CommFP and signalled further quizzing of compensation arrangements....

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Financial planning

FPA aims to grow members and boost consumer engagement with NAB Wealth executive hire....

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Financial planning

Commonwealth Financial Planning whistleblower Jeffrey Morris claims ASIC failed to act to cover its own incompetence....

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Financial planning

Financial planning industry veteran Gwen Fletcher passes away aged 94....

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Financial planning

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...

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Financial planning

Certified financial planner (CFP) professionals are more productive, profitable, and reduce compliance risk compared to financial planners without certification. ...

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