FINANCIAL PLANNING ASSOCIATION

Financial planning

Financial Planning Association chief executive, Dante Dr Gori has sought to soothe financial planners’ frayed nerves over the direction of the Financial Adviser Standards...

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Financial planning

Both the Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers will be using the highly-charged feedback received from their members to the Financial A...

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Financial planning

Franklin Templeton Investments Australia has launched a web training portal accredited by the Financial Planning Association for continuing professional development....

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Financial planning

Financial planning education providers would have to register with and meet the independent education body’s requirements to set out their curriculum as it looks to bring...

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Financial planning

The FPA has launched a national campaign backing the value of the Certified Financial Planning designation. ...

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Financial planning

Making higher educational standards legally enforceable in the advice industry will bring consistency in global industry standards across the sector, the FPA said....

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Editorial

Former FPA chairman, Matthew Rowe argues that the changing dynamics impacting the financial planning industry makes it inevitable that some organisations will wither and ...

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Financial planning

The FPA’s Matthew Rowe has questioned the survivability of a number of financial planning organisations....

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Superannuation

For some financial planners industry superannuation funds are just another product option while for others they represent an unfair playing field and an attack on the adv...

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Editorial

As the financial planning industry proceeds further into 2015 it must accept little or no further change to FOFA but a range of new debates and opportunities....

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Financial planning

FPA backs FSI recommendation that ASIC be given product intervention powers. ...

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Financial planning

The planning arm of a public service super fund will offer its advice services to other funds looking to provide advice to members....

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Financial planning

The FPA has presented the second Gwen Fletcher Memorial Award to Crowe Horwath’s Amy Early....

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Financial planning

The financial services industry has broadly welcomed the positives in the FSI final report....

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Financial planning

Much as a judge or magistrate has a duty to stay impartial when hearing matters which come before their courts, so too does a Commonwealth regulator....

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