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Financial Planning Association deputy chair Sarah Brennan and industry consultant Tom Collins have spoken openly about their involvement with Westpoint Corporation, as Br...
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The FPA is expecting financial services providers to modify their products in response to market demands for separately disclosed product and advice fees following the im...
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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has won a rare accolade from a major superannuation fund, with Tasmanian-based Tasplan praising the efforts of the FPA to improve...
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Three Victorian financial planners have been awarded $800,000 in damages against IOOF in a court case over the sale of the company’s building society to Bendigo Bank in 1...
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The regulator’s position on adviser remuneration has been questioned by the Federal opposition, who have implied that the watchdog did not have an adequate understanding ...
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MLC has launched a new version of its MasterKey platform that contains no commissions, aimed at supporting advisers who conduct the majority of their business on a fee-fo...
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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is cracking down on conflicts of interest and the use of commissions to improve the profile of the industry, and increasingly con...
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Law firm Slater and Gordon will take legal action against between 75 and 100 financial planners on behalf of 2,000 investors who lost millions of dollars in schemes assoc...
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The Financial Planning Association has confirmed that it is investigating six complaints about its members in relation to the failed Westpoint group....
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Western Australian financial planning group Plan B Financial Services has joined giant US-based wealth management network Zero Alpha Group....
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Liquidators have been appointed to wind up Westpoint Corporation following an application by ASIC to have the company shutdown on grounds of insolvency....
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The Australian Agribusiness Group has attacked the level of commissions charged for agribusiness products claiming they are too high and effectively stifling these projec...
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ASIC has delivered one of its most stinging criticisms of commission-based selling of financial planning advice, and called for dealer groups around the country to move t...
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Vision Equity Living has dropped its variable interest rate on its income and combination equity release plans from 8.15 percent to 7.99 per cent....
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Planning practices have been urged by the Financial Planing Association (FPA) to appoint a ‘conflicts officer’ in order to comply with new regulations, but the associatio...
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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...