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The Financial Planning Association has urged caution on the use of regulatory sandbox on the basis that automation doesn’t always equate to innovation when it comes to fi...

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Planning Association has warned that financial planners who dob-in colleagues for misconduct may not be adequately protected under the Government’s new whi...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has suggested naming and shaming to ensure compliance with the code of conduct applying to insurance within superannuation....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has urged giving the Australian Securities and Investments Commission the power to ban anyone in a financial services business whose ac...

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Planning Association has told the Productivity Commission that planners are being strangled by the demands and costs of meeting the needs of seven different...

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Financial planning

Figures from the Financial Planning Association of Australia showed women are more likely than men to feel stress about their financial situation....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has urged that the provision of advice and the delivery of member education be key criteria in the selection of default funds....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has urged ASIC to make further improvements to its example statement of advice....

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Superannuation

Government risks advantaging wealthy retirees at expense of others with its Budget home down-sizing measure warns industry funds....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has reinforced the differences between planners and accountants – something which it argues require different policy approaches....

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds which offer post-retirement products will be inherently conflicted with respect to member best interests and should not be afforded a legislative car...

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Editorial

The Financial Planning Association has clearly defined the difference between planners and accountants and why one size does not fit all with respect to remuneration, Mik...

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Features

Regtech, artificial intelligence, on-demand online education services, and pre-emptive risk detection are the ways of the future for the financial advice industry to tack...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association is strongly opposing a compensation scheme of last resort but wants product manufactures, research houses and others to pay if it becom...

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Financial planning

FOFA reforms were never intended to address the issues that emerged out of vertically integrated advice businesses and needs to be examined separately, the FPA said....

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