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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council (FSC) is already emerging as a beneficiary of the Financial Planning Association's (FPA's) drive to become a professional association, with...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has issued a how-to-vote card with CEO, Mark Rantall, describing the upcoming ballot as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the ...

Editorial

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...

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Financial planning

Student membership numbers up but practitioner numbers down in what outgoing Chair Julie Berry acknowledges as a period of growing pains for both the industry and its pea...

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Financial planning

FPA board candidates query use of “independent assessments” on ballot papers....

Financial planning

FPA Confidential has resulted in 12 formal investigations since it was launched in February....

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Financial planning

Research conducted by Investment Trends on behalf of the FPA has found consumers would rather speak to a financial planner than their super fund for advice....

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People & Products

Former Godfrey Pembroke executive Mark Rantall named as new FPA CEO....

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Financial planning

Complaints to the Financial Planning Association for the first quarter of 2010 have centred on planners switching a client's super funds or completing loan applications o...

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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...

Financial planning

With the industry coming to the end of a particularly challenging period, financial planners have good reason to be optimistic, writes Jo-Anne Bloch....

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Financial planning

The FPA remains Australia’s dominant industry body for financial planners, but in the contest for members it is the AFA that has experienced the greatest migration of mem...

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Financial planning

Ripoll Inquiry report airs FPA Board disagreements....

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Financial planning

FPA Board endorses commissions shift....

Financial planning

The spotlight on fees and commissions may soon be transferred from financial planners to product providers as a result of a review of the joint Investment and Financial S...

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