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Financial planning

The number of legislative and regulatory changes for the financial planning industry coming through in the next couple of years could be too burdensome and distracting fo...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has reiterated its calls for the Federal Government to enshrine the term 'financial adviser/planner' in legislation, but in sl...

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Editorial

With the major institutions and dealer groups having actively encouraged their financial planners to vote 'yes' to the Financial Planning Association's (FPA's) constituti...

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Financial planning

The Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Bill Shorten, has told financial planners that there is no need to compete with the intra-...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has called upon the Treasury to restrict the use of the term 'financial planner' under law. ...

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Financial planning

Voting members of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) have approved of the association's new three-year strategic plan that will raise professional standards and inc...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) would like to see a better model used for pricing individual risk that would potentially bring down the costs of professional ind...

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Financial planning

Legal experts believe the Government's proposed opt-in reform will be challenged due to a potential clash with current contract law....

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Editorial

The Minister for Financial Services, Billl Shorten, knows as well as anyone else in the financial services sector that the IFAAA is a minnow. Thus his recent comments mus...

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Financial planning

The FPA has responded to the ISN's claims of a 'crisis of confidence' with the financial planning industry by encouraging planning clients to ensure advice they receive i...

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council (FSC) is already emerging as a beneficiary of the Financial Planning Association's (FPA's) drive to become a professional association, with...

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Editorial

It has become self-evident that either directly or indirectly, opt-in is going to drive up the cost of financial advice for many Australian consumers, writes Mike Taylor....

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Financial planning

The advertising campaign proposed by the Financial Planning Association (FPA) will cost up to $15 million over five years....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has reassured its members that its proposed strategic plan will address member discontent with several aspects of the FPA’s polic...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has invited three delegates from a newly formed group of financial planning academics to be part of its Education Council. The de...

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