Jo-Anne Bloch of Mercer Human Resources Services will relocate from the United Kingdom to become the new chief executive of the Financial Planning Association....
The FPA will resume its value of advice advertising campaign, with Dazza and his well-intentioned yet dubious quality financial advice set to return to television screens...
The ACA has called for greater prudential control over unsecured investments following the winding up of two Westpoint mezzanine finance companies, and warned investors o...
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has appointed two independent board directors to replace former chairman Kathryn Greiner and David Elsum, who resign...
The AIOFP has criticised the FPA’s comments last week that investors, not planners, were responsible for money lost through investments in Westpoint-associated products, ...
The outgoing chief executive of the Financial Planning Association, Kerrie Kelly, has described her move to the Insurance Council of Australia as a “straight career decis...
The FPA’s Principles on Conflicts of Interest have been refined into four statements following feedback from its membership....
The FPA has announced it will hold its own investigation into the conduct of Tasmanian adviser Brendan Moore....
The credibility of the financial planning industry will once again be put under the microscope following the release of a report which claims advisers are overwhelmingly ...
Proposed changes that could shorten the length of disclosure documents and bring much needed relief from burdensome Statement of Advice (SOA) requirements have been endor...
Many investors will remain ignorant of the soft-dollar payments received by advisers under the new industry Code of Practice for their disclosure, according to the Austra...
The Financial Planning Association is sticking to its position that real estate agents should be regulated by a separate regime that picks up the best elements of Financi...
The Financial Planning Association has warned that consumers’ retirement savings are being put at risk by misleading advertising in the lead up to choice of fund, and ha...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has given its campaign to raise the quality of financial advice more impetus, announcing the appointment yesterday of a dedicated...
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,...