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The Financial Planning Association has issued a carefully measured response to the latest Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority blueprint, arguing it needs mor...

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Financial planning

While the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s updated standards show some positives, advisers are still going to be impacted by the regulator’s arbitrary d...

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Features

Mike Taylor looks at the policy environment facing financial planners as they prepare to enter 2019 and concludes that they are facing almost unprecedented levels of unce...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association's Conduct Review Commission has fined former member, Sam Henderson $50,000 for breaching the FPA code of conduct....

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Financial planning

Industry Super Australia has objected to exempting personal financial advice from product design and distribution obligations, arguing planners need to be held responsibl...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has told the Royal Commission the planning industry would be well served if licensees were obligated to a best interest duty in the sam...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has established a new legal entity in preparation to become a code-monitoring body under the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Aut...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has suggested risk rating financial products to better target consumer protections....

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People & Products

Financial Planning Association board director Marisa Broome will take over as chair from Neil Kendall when his term ends on 21 November, this year....

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Financial planning

The FPA’s Conduct Review Commission has found that planner Sam Henderson was guilty of eight out of 10 alleged breaches of the Code of Professional Practice but the quest...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association’s Conduct Review Commission has found that planner Sam Henderson breached the FPA’s Code of Professional Practice....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has banded with Financial Executive Women to promote mentoring opportunities for women in the planning industry and support them in the...

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People & Products

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has appointed industry veteran Ken Whitton to the newly created role of professional practice manager....

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Financial planning

Money Management’s Top 100 planning groups survey shows planner numbers have defied industry turbulence to reach their highest level in half a decade, but is this the pea...

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Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has been warned against over-complicating the transition of practising advisers who hold foreign qualifications....

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