The Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation will become as well recognised as the Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) within ten years, according to a visiting CF...
Any plans of a merger between the Life Insurance Complaints Service (LICS) and the Financial Services Complaints Resolution Scheme (FSCRS) have been scuttled, at least in...
The FPA says it has been overwhelmed with the response to its new CFP profes-sional education program. The course, which has attracted 150 enrolments for the first semest...
Commission disclosure for life insurance products is no stranger to controversy. Gareth Cosslett asks if the latest battle, concerning two pieces of key financial service...
I have agonised over writing this particular column. I was a founda-tion member of the IAFP; on the steering committee that set up the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) d...
1. Name: Norm Whyte 2. Job title: Proper authority holder 3. Dealer group: Professional Investment Services ...
Talks between Australia's two peak accounting bodies and the Financial Planning Association (FPA) have failed to establish a single designation for the provision of finan...
Two events of the past month have the potential to turn the retail financial services market on its head. Tom Collins examines the possibilities opened up by the sale of ...
At the time of writing this article only one of the three forums on administration systems (wraps and master trusts) had been held. ...
The financial services industry breathed a collective sigh of relief following the the announcement by Treasurer Peter Costello that the government will take Ralph Review...
A review of real estate agents providing investment advice in regard to property is being sought through an FPA submission to the Australian Securities & Investments Comm...
The unpopular Life Insurance Conduct and Disclosure (LICD) Bill has been scrapped by the Federal Government....
This edition of Money Management is dominated by the evolving business of portfolio administration services. ...
A high profile can open many doors for financial planners in terms of quality client leads, retaining clients and building a better business. But as Julia Newbould found ...
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...