Financial planners are not alone in the firing line when it comes to ensuring all contact with clients is above board, according to an industry figure....

The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) yesterday called on the Federal Government to establish an inquiry into retirement incomes policy as part of a drive...

A lot of advisers do not appreciate the finer qualities of the business development executives whose job it is to tend to their every wish. Nick Bruining, however, won’t ...

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has added one new face and returned three long serving FPA board members to its board....

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has rolled out its first major advertising and public relations campaign, said to be worth up to $1 million, this week....

The Financial Industry Complaints Service (FICS) has become the first off the blocks in the race to sign up responsible entities to its scheme....

“This issue is a huge sleeper and it makes John Laws look like a bloody Franciscan monk.”...

In an obvious move to boost a desperately sagging circulation, “Stewy the Fridge” has decided to cast decency, good taste and sense to the four winds and ask the lemming ...

Last week Money Management helped snatch victory in a FPA debate on whether planners were ready for the next century....

Australian financial planning groups have been allocated 64 million shares, or 3 per cent of the shares available, in the Telstra 2 offer....

But the FPA doesn't hold the monopoly to auctions, charity, bacchanalia and ac-ronyms with F and A in them....

Minimum standards for the training of authorised representatives by licensees and principals released last week are not expected to pose much of a threat to most finan-c...

“How deeply entrenched are soft dollar commissions in the financial services industry?”...

Is financial planning for most advisers an academic exercise? ...