The Financial Planning Association of Australia has recognised Australia’s top financial planners at its 2018 FPA Awards....
Technology was a focus of the first day of the FPA’s Professionals Congress yesterday, with the organisation both releasing a fintech buyers guide and a new app to match ...
Financial planners who breach the industry’s new code of conduct will face the ultimate sanction of exclusion from the industry under arrangements outlined in a new Finan...
The Financial Planning Association has issued a carefully measured response to the latest Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority blueprint, arguing it needs mor...
While the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s updated standards show some positives, advisers are still going to be impacted by the regulator’s arbitrary d...
The Financial Planning Association's Conduct Review Commission has fined former member, Sam Henderson $50,000 for breaching the FPA code of conduct....
Industry Super Australia has objected to exempting personal financial advice from product design and distribution obligations, arguing planners need to be held responsibl...
The Financial Planning Association has told the Royal Commission the planning industry would be well served if licensees were obligated to a best interest duty in the sam...
The Financial Planning Association has suggested risk rating financial products to better target consumer protections....
Parents are struggling to raise kids born since 2000 and to whom money is often unseen, but seeking a financial planner could help, according to the Financial Planning As...
The Government has been warned it risks undermining legitimate and well-established financial advice via its plan for the auto-consolidation of low-balance superannuation...
Amid confusion and outcry amongst financial advisers about the Financial Advisers Standards and Ethics Authority’s education proposals, it is worth remembering how reform...
The Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers will gain a membership advantage if they are appointed as code monitoring bodies by the Austr...
Financial planners rather than financial products will be critical to helping Australians adapt to changing work environments, including the gig economy, according the Fi...
The Financial Planning Association has backed early release of superannuation on compassionate and hardship grounds, arguing it fits with financial planner obligations to...
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....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...