FPA

Financial planning

The FPA has presented the second Gwen Fletcher Memorial Award to Crowe Horwath’s Amy Early....

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Financial planning

The financial services industry has broadly welcomed the positives in the FSI final report....

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Financial planning

FPA chief executive, Mark Rantall, has expressed disappointment that the ASIC chairman’s comments impacted the entire profession....

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Financial planning

ASIC has vehemently denied being swayed by lobbying groups to suspend its adviser competency push. ...

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Financial planning

Professionalism in the financial services industry remains some distance off and may need Government intervention....

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Financial planning

The major financial planning groups and companies are continuing to lobby for FOFA changes, but planners are being urged to accept the law as it currently stands....

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Financial planning

Industry organisations have applauded parliament’s restoration of the grandfathering provision in the latest round of the FOFA reforms, claiming it overturned a rule that...

Superannuation

Advisers may need to rethink their approach to aged care advice. ...

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Financial planning

FPA chief executive, Mark Rantall acknowledges the high price paid by the industry resulting from bad publicity generated by whistleblowers....

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Financial planning

The failure to ask open-ended questions or listen to the goals and feedback of clients are among the most frequent errors that cost planners clients, according to advice ...

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Financial planning

Managed account specialists warn that grandfathering needs to be viewed as a diminishing resource....

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Financial planning

FPA’s outgoing chairman, Matthew Rowe, says the FPA won’t seek to defend the indefensible where bad advice is concerned....

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Policy & Regulation

The FPA has urged a facilitative approach from ASIC as planners seek to comply with the Senate imposed FOFA reversal....

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Policy & Regulation

The FPA has denounced efforts in the Senate to disallow amendments to FOFA predicting changes will automatically place advisers in breach of the law....

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Financial planning

Industry public offer fund Sunsuper and the Financial Planning Association (FPA) have announced they have agreed to a national referral program....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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