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If you don’t know Nick Bruining, chances are you are a newcomer to financial services. Julie Bennett charts his rise to the top....

Financial planning

Former Financial Planning Association (FPA) board member, Nick Bruining, has taken out the 2003 Money Management Financial Planner of the Year award in what is fast becom...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will suffer “a probable net loss of fifteen” staff through retrenchment following yesterday’s announcement of restructure plans t...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has moved a step closer to setting up its own in-house professional indemnity (PI) insurance solution for members, calling on a r...

Financial planning

A love of the country and his community has kept Robert Kiddell out of the big smoke, but he has long been playing in the big league. Jason Spits looks at why the judges ...

Financial planning

It is not every financial planner who can count a meeting with the Prime Minister as a career highlight....

Editorial

While speaking at the FPA’s annual convention, Roger Gibson made a convincing case for asset allocation diversification – but left Dominic McCormick uncomfortable with so...

Policy & Regulation

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) have formed a joint task force to fight against state Government pro...

Financial planning

The Australian Consumers’ Association (ACA) has hit out at the funds management and financial planning industry in Australia, stating it is “characterised by structural c...

Financial planning

The chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, Senator Grant Chapman, has indicated it may re-examine the issue of risk product di...

Financial planning

The Money Management Financial Planner of the Year Award is now in its 15th year since awarding the inaugural prize in 1989 to David Worley....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has had five new faces elected to its board after the association’s members were called to elect candidates to replace outgoing m...

Financial planning

If Tom Collins, principal of the Tom Collins Consultancy, has been one of the most influential players through 2003 it is probably because the industry has, finally, come...

Financial planning

Ken Breakspear no doubt sees some irony in the fact that he has received a nomination for Money Management’s list of Most Influential People for the third year running, i...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has voiced opposition to Labor’s proposed ban on commissions for superannuation guarantee contributions, arguing this would make ...

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