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Intense lobbying by financial advisers has made Federal parliamentarians aware of their problems with the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime but unce...

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Features

As advisers battle with the effects of the Banking Royal Commission, education reforms, the banks exiting wealth, and changes to business structures, Hannah Wootton finds...

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Features

Most financial advisers believe financial advice should be tax deductible for clients, but a significant cohort believe it should not be tax deductible for advice around ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has launched a new CPD platform aimed at aggregating FPA, Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority-accredited options....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has urged the Government to make financial advice tax-deductible if it is provided by ‘registered financial planners’....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has confirmed the inevitable hit on the Certified Financial Planner designation resulting from the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethi...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers have been pointing to a document produced by the Financial Planning Association to reinforce their argument for a 12-month extension to the Financial A...

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Financial planning

Just days out from the close of enrolments for the Financial Planning Association’s Certified Financial Planning designation, the organisation’s chief executive, Dante De...

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Editorial

Even the frequent critics of financial advisers should acknowledge that their calls for an extension to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exam timetabl...

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People & Products

The Financial Planning Association of Australia has announced Raquel Netto of The Wealth Mentoring Group as the Semester 1, 2019 winner of the Gwen Fletcher Memorial Awar...

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Financial planning

The private contractual nature of Buyer of Last Resort arrangements has served to leave the major planning organisations on the sidelines as advisers see their pay-outs e...

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Financial planning

Financial planners face the need to convince the Senate cross-bench of the virtue of allowing more time for them to sit the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authori...

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Life/Risk

The Financial Planning Association has given its backing to the standardisation of terms and definitions with respect to insurance with MySuper products but has caused ag...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has backed its push for co-regulation and enforceable codes with a call for confidential information sharing with the Australian Securi...

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Financial planning

The industry’s two main industry bodies have continued their unified response navigating the difficult landscape advisers are facing, yesterday meeting together with Sena...

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