Ray Griffin looks at the recent changes made by the Financial Planning Association and considers the impact they will have on the financial planning community in Australi...
As the debate surrounding tertiary education for financial planners moves from whether it should be compulsory to what degree should count, Ashleigh McIntyre writes that ...
The University of New England has signed an articulation agreement with RG 146 training provider, Mentor Education Group, allowing Mentor graduates to knock up to 42 per ...
ANZIIF warns that lifting the bar on financial planning qualifications may be an overreaction to having set it too low....
Financial planners will be closely watching the discussion and debate surrounding the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms....
The replacement of outgoing Financial Planning Association CEO Jo-Anne Bloch by Godfrey Pembroke chief Mark Rantall attracted criticism from some quarters of the industry...
A joint move by ASIC and APRA to suspend Trio Capital (formerly Astarra Capital) as trustee of four superannuation funds and a pooled super trust generated significant co...
Academic urges development of new tertiary-based minimum standards for financial planners....
To be regarded as a serious profession, the industry must differentiate between properly qualified financial planners and those with lesser qualifications, writes Mike Ta...
The Financial Planning Association has outlined a radical agenda in its attempt to evolve into a professional association but, as Mike Taylor reports, the ultimate transf...
Notwithstanding the criticisms that have been directed at the FPA and the course it has charted, outgoing FPA chief Julie Berry believes the FPA’s direction has alw...
The Financial Planning Association's move towards professionalism could turn out to be very costly for the organisation, writes Mike Taylor....
Unrelenting professionalism and a firm commitment to training and education made Catherine Robson the clear winner of this year's Money Management Financial Planner of th...
The Board of the Financial Planning Association has proposed significant changes to the make-up of the association, which would see individual financial planners given pr...
FPA makes possession of a relevant degree mandatory for membership from 2013....
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
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....