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Financial planning

FPA honours ‘first lady of financial planning’, Gwen Fletcher, by giving her name to a CFP-related award...

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Policy & Regulation

Minister puts brakes on both legislative and regulatory amendments to FOFA but action is well received. ...

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Policy & Regulation

Several financial services industry bodies throw support behind FOFA amendments tabled in Parliament yesterday. ...

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Financial planning

FPA chief executive Mark Rantall says planners still want clarity around the TASA requirements....

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Editorial

Close watchers of the financial services industry will have noted that for a period of about 18 months to the end of 2013 an informal truce seemed to exist between the FP...

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Financial planning

Adviser associations support the creation of an adviser register but reject an exam as an inadequate measure of adviser competencies. ...

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Financial planning

Free education campaign to prepare members for implementation of TASA...

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Financial planning

The FPA has rebutted “rhetoric and scare-mongering” about best interests and consumer protection. ...

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Financial planning

FPA planners receive 25 advice referrals from Cbus since start of new year....

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Policy & Regulation

Federal Government set to deliver pre-election promises with raft of proposed FOFA amendments including grandfathering and opt-in changes....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will push for more realistic standards and reforms under the Tax Advisers Services Act (TASA) in the new year, including tax-dedu...

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Financial planning

FPA gives research and marketing materials to FPSB members to promote CFP designation...

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Financial planning

The FPA is continuing to pursue enshrinement of the term ‘financial planner/adviser’ amid Government consideration of FOFA changes....

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Financial planning

The financial planning profession needs time to regroup before any further reform is explored, an industry body believes. ...

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Financial planning

The need to build a growing and sustainable business has emerged as a key concern for financial planners who attended the Financial Planning Association’s professionals c...

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