FPA

Financial planning

The legislation to enshrine the term ‘financial planner/adviser’ has failed to make it into the Senate but the FPA has not given up....

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Editorial

If one issue has clearly defined the divide which continues to exist between financial planners and accountants, it has been the chequered passage of the Government’s Tax...

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Accounting

Accountants accept TASA outcome, saying it is the ultimate outcome rather than the journey that matters. ...

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Financial planning

The FPA has been foremost in welcoming the Coalition’s breakthrough on the TASA legislation delivering planners a further 12 months’ exemption. ...

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Financial planning

ASFA's Pauline Vamos argues the increasing complexity involved in dealing with post-retirement issues justifies a specialist qualification for planners. ...

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Editorial

The appeals of the FPA for a further extension of the TASA implementation seemed to be falling on deaf ears, with the Assistant Treasurer, David Bradbury, seeming determi...

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Financial planning

FPA chief executive Mark Rantall has written to all Federal Parliamentarians urging them not to simply wave through the TASA legislation....

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Superannuation

AIST and ISN are calling for a clearer definition of the word 'advice’, as the current wording of TASA prohibits industry super funds from providing intra-fund advice. ...

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Financial planning

The Federal Opposition will fight for changes to the TASA timetable in Parliament, but will revisit the issue post-election if the Parliamentary battle fails....

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Financial planning

FPA points to tertiary qualifications discrepancy in Treasury TASA documents....

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Financial planning

The financial planning industry is not expecting a bipartisan report from the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) reviewing the Tax Agents Services Act (TASA) legislation...

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Financial planning

FSC places $1 billion price tag on TASA implementation as PJC weighs competing submissions from accounting and planning industries....

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Financial planning

Certified Financial Planners earn around $35,000 more per year on average than planners without this designation, according to the Investment Trends FPA Professional Divi...

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Accounting

Accounting bodies claim Government’s concessions to planners on TASA are a negative outcome for consumers....

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Financial planning

The Federal Government has bowed to industry pressure by allowing planners breathing space on TASA transition....

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