FINANCIAL PLANNING ASSOCIATION

Financial planning

Practice management consultancy E&W Strategic Partners has released a transition to fee-for-service handbook that it believes goes beyond the pricing of advice....

Financial planning

The FPA has launched an online education tool designed to help planners through the early trust building phase of a client relationship....

Financial planning

Accountant advisers are preparing their arguments against reforms which would see them prohibited from receiving any form of asset based fee, from as early as 1 July next...

Financial planning

Responsible Investment skills are becoming career essentials for financial services industry professionals around the globe, according to the Responsible Investment Acade...

Financial planning

The FPA calls for industry support to give its DollarSmart program more impetus....

Editorial

With the Federal Election campaign now approaching the halfway mark, Mike Taylor notes that there has been precious little discussion about financial services, the Future...

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Financial planning

FPA Confidential has resulted in 12 formal investigations since it was launched in February....

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Financial planning

Financial planning industry bodies must be careful taking sides during the election campaign - but at the same time they must continue stating their positions, writes Mik...

Financial planning

ANZ-owned dealer group Millennium3 Financial Services has withdrawn its principal membership of the Financial Planning Association....

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Life/Risk

The Financial Planning Association has found no evidence of mis-selling of life insurance that would justify a ban on commissions, stating that the only beneficiary of th...

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Financial planning

Professional Investment Holdings' subsidiary company, Associated Advisory Practices, is growing not only in scale, but also in influence among the independent advisory fo...

Life/Risk

The Federal Opposition is reserving judgement on the Cooper Review recommendation to ban insurance commissions while the financial planning sector battles it out with the...

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Editorial

The electoral cycle has overtaken the Government's agenda to change the financial planning industry and, as Mike Taylor reports, the ultimate outcome will be dictated by ...

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Financial planning

The founders of Sonray Capital Markets have been grounded while investigations into the advice firm's collapse continue....

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Financial planning

Research conducted by Investment Trends on behalf of the FPA has found consumers would rather speak to a financial planner than their super fund for advice....

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