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Financial planning

The need to build a growing and sustainable business has emerged as a key concern for financial planners who attended the Financial Planning Association’s professionals c...

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the FPA’s referral arrangement with big industry fund Cbus represents yet another indicator that, having lost the war prosecuted by the industry f...

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Superannuation

IFM states new name is better representation of its work and customers. ...

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Life/Risk

Risk commission concerns have blocked discussions about client trust and appropriate selling of risk insurance...

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Financial planning

FPA chief executive calls on CFP members to actively promote designation. ...

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Financial planning

Twenty per cent lower practice valuations are the way of the future, says Seaview Consulting director Bob Neill....

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Financial planning

Financial planners in regional Australia share many of the challenges faced by those in metropolitan areas, writes Jason Spits, but technology has helped overcome the tyr...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has entered into an agreement with industry super fund Cbus to pilot a referral service. ...

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Financial planning

ISA and AIST call for simpler process around lifting advice qualification standards....

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Financial planning

FPA recommends creation of stakeholder body to drive education standards....

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Superannuation

Only two in five Australians currently receive qualified financial advice, according to a recent survey conducted by the Financial Planning Association....

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Editorial

Just days will separate two key conferences aimed at financial planners and advisers next month, but Mike Taylor writes that success or failure will not be judged solely ...

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Financial planning

The FPA’s Ask an Expert initiative received more than 90 requests this year, which points to a stronger-than-ever need for financial advice, the association says....

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Financial planning

ASIC’s senior executive leader Ged Fitzpatrick has defended the role of fast-tracked pre-election regulatory change in the wake of RG148....

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Financial planning

The Fold Legal launches three new online learning modules in its Financial Advice Series....

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