The Financial Planning Association has strongly opposed Treasury inclinations towards the creation of a passive “MyRetirement” regime similar to MySuper....
The FPA has exempted CIMA certificants from the CFP program and offered them an accelerated path to CFP certification....
The Financial Planning Association is urging that new external dispute resolution arrangements insulate third-party planners from the misdeeds of licensees....
The Financial Planning Association and the Cancer Council have launched a pro bono financial advice project to help cancer patients when they most need it....
Advice practices that implement the new professional and ethical standards and improve financial advice standards could eventually have to pay less levy to fund ASIC. ...
The new education standards for financial planners may have been legislated but advisers were still uncertain over the specific details around the framework. ...
The Financial Planning Association is arguing for professional associations to be embedded in the breach reporting regime under a co-regulatory approach....
The Financial Planning Association’s bid to become a code-monitoring body has taken another step with the appointment of two senior lawyers to oversee its Conduct Review ...
ASIC is taking a close look at the sale of life insurance direct to consumers and Mike Taylor writes that the regulator’s findings may significantly alter the commercial ...
The national standards and codes of ethics setter for accounting bodies is asking for feedback on consultation for the standard that covers accountants providing financia...
The Financial Planning Association of Australia and the Financial Executive Women have today announced a partnership to advance the progression of female planners....
The FPA has used its pre-budget submission to once again push for initial financial plans and ongoing management fees to be made tax deductible....
Financial services consumers would be better protected if the regulators could better target product manufacturers, according to the FPA....
If insurers were made to drop underwriting policies at the time of claim could they accept the accompanying commercial pain?...
The Australian life/risk sector is facing a fundamental reshaping as advisers move beyond the LIF and banks consider their return on investment, Mike Taylor finds....
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...