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Financial planning

The FPA has stressed the importance of assigning a deadline to new educational standards for the profession in a submission to another parliamentary inquiry. ...

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Financial planning

Young Australians are increasingly looking for quick fix advice to make their savings last, while over 50s have their eyes squarely on retirement, FPA research has reveal...

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Financial planning

Efforts by the Commonwealth Bank, AMP and NAB/MLC to lift planners’ educational and ethical standards have been lauded by the FPA as evidence its drive towards industry p...

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Financial planning

The FPA is using its annual Financial Planning Week to try and change consumer perceptions that financial planners are only for the affluent....

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Financial planning

NAB/MLC has joined the push to lift planner education standards....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that Financial Services Council chief executive, John Brogden used his last annual conference address to point to how little the big issues have change...

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Financial planning

Issues arising from vertical integration are not to blame for waning trust in financial advisers, with the erosion of professional values a more likely culprit, a Deloitt...

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Financial planning

Middletons further develops resourcing in South Australia....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the drive for higher educational standards for financial planners has served to regenerate criticism of those people who were grandfathered into t...

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Superannuation

The referral arrangement between Cbus and FPA will move onto a permanent footing after agreement to roll out the program nation-wide....

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Financial planning

FPA chairman, Matthew Rowe wants planners to be individually registered with ASIC as part of a fully enforceable professional code of conduct....

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has moved to lift education standards for planners, supervisors and managers of planners....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the financial planning industry must lobby the Palmer United Party to defend hard-won FOFA gains. ...

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Policy & Regulation

Moves by the Federal Government to introduce an enhanced register of financial advisers are being backed by the FPA and FSC....

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Policy & Regulation

A letter written by Senator Mathias Cormann to Clive Palmer confirms the concessions that were necessary to ensure passage of the regulations changing FOFA....

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