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Policy & Regulation

The FPA has expressed concern that lack of clarity in the FOFA legislation could undermine practice valuations....

Financial planning

The FPA will leverage Google to push traffic to its consumer planning site....

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Superannuation

Core elements of the financial planning industry are calling for greater regulatory scrutiny of the contractual arrangements underpinning the multimillion dollar group in...

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Financial planning

FPA chief executive Mark Rantall cites advertising campaign as underscoring planners from 'free riders'....

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Financial planning

While the industry funds laud the FOFA legislation, the key financial planning groups maintain their rage against opt-in....

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Financial planning

The FPA has called for a ban on industry funds accessing MySuper and default fund balances to fund television advertising campaigns....

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Rate the raters

Claims by the financial planning industry that all industry participants, including research providers, should be liable for some client losses has been met with a mixed ...

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Editorial

Assistant Treasurer, Bill Shorten, has pointedly excluded the Association of Financial Advisers from those who convinced the Government to concede ground on risk commissi...

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Financial planning

Financial planning clients would face greater risks in volatile markets under opt-in, says FPA chief, Mark Rantall. ...

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Editorial

ASIC's guidance document on scalable advice should be welcomed for one thing, the manner in which it proposes to remove the class relief granted to superannuation fund tr...

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Financial planning

Financial Planning Association chief executive Mark Rantall has labelled recent Industry Super Network research 'unrealistic' and 'manipulative', while ClearView and AMP ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Treasury has admitted it has not done a complex international comparison of the Government's proposed Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) changes and experience...

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Financial planning

Product manufacturers should be prepared to play a role in weeding out the bad apples who give the financial planning industry a bad name, according to the chief executiv...

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Superannuation

The financial planning industry organisation has welcomed a signal from the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, that the Federal Govern...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has criticised CHOICE’s partnership with the Big Bank Switch campaign, calling it hypocritical....

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