FPA CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Financial planning

Centric Wealth has released its own professional standards of best practice, which have received the endorsement of the Financial Planning Association (FPA)....

Editorial

Financial planners must rebut the Industry Super Network's claim that asset-based fees are commissions by another name, writes Mike Taylor....

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Policy & Regulation

The FPA and the Association AFA are confident that the industry has the ear of Treasury as the consultation around the Future of Financial Advice reforms has resumed....

Financial planning

The FPA has denounced the Industry Super Network’s stance that asset-based fees are commissions in disguise, questioning whether in fact cross-subsidisation of intr...

Financial planning

The FPA has launched an online education tool designed to help planners through the early trust building phase of a client relationship....

Financial planning

The FPA is calling on current and aspiring CFPs to enter themselves in the Value of Advice Awards for 2010....

Editorial

The appointment of Mark Rantall as the new FPA chief executive comes amid revelations of disagreements in the boardroom....

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People & Products

Financial Planning Association (FPA) chair Julie Berry has acknowledged the appointment of incoming FPA chief Mark Rantall was conducted by a three-person sub committee o...

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Financial planning

The FPA has gained membership ground after a loss in numbers during the 2008-09 financial year....

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Life/Risk

The FPA Board has re-stated its belief that commission payments to advisers on the sale of insurance products should continue, saying a shift to fee-for-service in this a...

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Financial planning

Adviser-owned dealer group Matrix Planning Solutions has argued it's time for the FPA and the AFA to become one entity....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association's (FPA’s) Job Board attracted over 1,500 visitors in one week, demonstrating the need for such a portal, said FPA chief executive Jo-An...

People & Products

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has found a replacement for the position of general manager of policy and government relations, which was left vacant following G...

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Financial planning

The FPA has been criticised for not consulting with the wider tertiary education sector before going ahead with the release of its education consultation paper....

Financial planning

A further 122 FPA members pass final CFP program examinations....

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