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Former FPA chairman Wes McMaster has become the first financial planner in Australia to be anointed a professor....

Financial planning

CPA Australia has hit out at what it calls “scaremongering” about the Declared Professional Body (DPB) exemption contained in the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB)....

Financial planning

Last year I wrote an article I called “Regulation – friend or foe, crutch or protector” (<I>Money Management</I> retitled it “Is it really necessary to have more rules fr...

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Educated investors are no longer willing to put up with financial plans which don't meet their needs but advisers have ways to protect themselves as <B>John Wilkinson</B>...

Financial planning

It’s like a ticking time bomb sitting beneath the financial planning industry. Tax legislation aimed at snaring IT and construction contractors has unintentionally caught...

Financial planning

Financial Planning Association stalwart Ken Breakspear has been anointed chief executive of the association....

Financial planning

A number of Australia’s leading financial services consultants have been traversing the nation for the past month as a part of the FPA Roadshow. Money Management caught u...

Financial planning

About 3,500 financial services professionals, including 100 Australians, crammed into a Boston conference venue to catch the US-based FPA annual conference, Success Forum...

Financial planning

The amount of conferences and seminars run each year can create a huge demand on advisers. Jason Spits asks if the benefits are worth the effort....

Financial planning

Risk products that don’t pay commissions – you’ve got to be joking. Refunding trail commissions – too hard....

Financial planning

Too many business relationships between financial planners and the accountants who refer clients fail due to poor structure of the relationship, says Shirlaws partner Chr...

Financial planning

The push by the government to change the face of the financial services industry has also included a change in the way planners are licensed and educated. David Chaplin e...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will announce a replacement for former FPA chief executive officer, Michael McKenna, in early October, according to FPA Chairman ...

Financial planning

Who is best qualified to give advice, accountants or planners, has been a long running debate. John Wilkinson looks at how this debate is developing and the influence of ...

Financial planning

About 3,500 financial services professionals, including 100 Australians, crammed into a Boston conference venue to catch the US-based FPA annual conference, Success Forum...

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