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With conflicts of interest in the spotlight, receiving payment for services is no simple matter. Zoe Fielding asked Financial Planning Association director Sarah Brennan ...

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If anyone had any doubt about how conflicts of interest, whether real or perceived, are impacting on the image of financial planners, then they only had to listen to a sp...

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The Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) new professional indemnity (PI) insurance facility has proved its worth, demonstrating that it could save members 15 per cent o...

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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...

Financial planning

The bar on professional standards in the financial planning industry has once again been raised by tough new rules which seek to eliminate conflicts of interest for advis...

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When consultant Pauline Vamos received a copy of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Financial Services Reform Policy Statement 181, she was as much in...

Financial planning

A year after the implementation of the financial services reforms, planners are struggling to absorb the costs of compliance, particularly for statements of advice. Advis...

Financial planning

When consultant Pauline Vamos received a copy of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Financial Services Reform (FSR) Policy Statement 181, she was as m...

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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has signalled it will continue with its push to clean up the profession and raise the standard of advice provided by financial pl...

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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has been forced to defend itself against accusations that it will not be able to police its own self imposed get-tough codes on s...

Financial planning

A double barrelled attack has been unleashed by the Financial Planning Association and Investment and Financial Services Association enforcing tough new guidelines on pay...

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Suspected violations of the Financial Planning Association’s code of conduct have increased this year, prompting the association to augment its efforts to investigate que...

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AMP director of advice-based distribution Steve Helmich will stand down as Financial Planning Association chairman, making way for chair-elect Kathryn Greiner - the first...

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It has been six months since chief executive officer Kerrie Kelly began the structural makeover of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and at last count the number o...

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