The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will push for more realistic standards and reforms under the Tax Advisers Services Act (TASA) in the new year, including tax-dedu...
Consumer-dominated submissions reflect lack of confidence in watchdog. ...
FPA gives research and marketing materials to FPSB members to promote CFP designation...
The FPA is continuing to pursue enshrinement of the term ‘financial planner/adviser’ amid Government consideration of FOFA changes....
James Kenny’s passion for educating up-and-coming stars of the profession saw him take home the 2013 Financial Planner of the Year award, Kate Cowling reports. ...
The financial planning profession needs time to regroup before any further reform is explored, an industry body believes. ...
Unified Financial Services principal and industry veteran Michelle Tate-Lovery has been awarded the inaugural Money Management / Super Review Mentor of the Year title. ...
Claire Mackay has won the Pro-Bono Award in Money Management/Super Review’s inaugural Women in Financial Services Awards 2013. ...
It was probably inevitable that within two months of gaining office and with a minimum of fuss, the Coalition Government has sought to undo some of the last legislative a...
The Financial Planning Association has canvassed the possibility of a professional association regulating the industry alongside ASIC but, as Mike Taylor writes, many wil...
Mike Taylor writes that as a former ASIC executive, ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos has managed to spice up the submissions to the Senate Committee reviewing ASIC’s op...
The financial services industry has broadly welcomed the Government’s move to abolish the proposed tax on super earnings over $100,000....
FPA canvasses two-way working relationship between professional bodies such as itself and ASIC....
There is clearly regulatory concern about the activities of property spruikers as they seek to target SMSFs and, as Mike Taylor writes, a clear message needs to be sent. ...
The need to build a growing and sustainable business has emerged as a key concern for financial planners who attended the Financial Planning Association’s professionals c...
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,...