Improving professionalism in the financial planning arena will be a key theme at this week’s Financial Planning Association (FPA) Congress in Adelaide. ...
The FPA has reported a 100 per cent surge in its CFP program take up after the CBA and AMP raised educational standards following scandals at the CBA and Macquarie Bank....
The FPA has named Neil Kendall as its new chair, along with making changes to its board....
FPA chairman, Matthew Rowe, has queried the dearth of practicing planners on FSC/AFA insurance working group....
Drawing out unethical behaviour within the planning industry hinges on frameworks to support whistleblowers, who are largely dispirited under current governance structure...
Lonsec/SuperRatings data points to value in industry funds more willingly linking with financial planners....
Politicians tasked with raising education and professional standards in the financial advice sector are being urged by the FPA. to “look beyond the noise” of vested inter...
The FPA has appointed Dr June Smith as Chair of its Conduct Review Commission (CRC), the body which monitors the conduct of FPA members. ...
Banning upfront commissions on insurance products is not the answer to weeding out unscrupulous advisers, according to The Boutique Financial Planning Principals’ Group (...
AFA and FSC form working body while FPA calls for insurance providers to review their offerings...
Mike Taylor writes that industry fund members represent a large and largely untapped client base for financial planners to which the FPA has rightly sought to provide acc...
The FSC’s call for an industry-funded advisory board has drawn scorn from two of finance industry’s most vocal bodies....
Higher standards is the mantra but have planners dragged the chain on lifting them? ...
A new statutory body should control education and professional standards according to FSC, however it may sideline professional associations seeking self-regulation....
The major institutions are right to take the lead on lifting educational standards in the financial planning space....
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...