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A Victorian planner has queried the new cost structures surrounding the restructured professional FPA....
Financial planning
Abolishing the age limit on the superannuation guarantee will promote consistency and fairness across the board, and give mature-age workers more choice about the age at ...
Financial planning
A panel of senior financial planners has warned that ‘opt-in’ will drive up costs and abrogate the fundamental relationship between advisers and clients....
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has issued a how-to-vote card with CEO, Mark Rantall, describing the upcoming ballot as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the ...
Editorial
The new lobbying group AusFIN may present a united front for consumer groups and the industry super funds, but Mike Taylor writes that a closer look at its members reveal...
Financial planning
The FPA has described recent comments from sections of the trade union superannuation movement advocating an opt-in payment structure for financial advice as ‘alarm...
Editorial
The Assistant Treasurer, Bill Shorten, faces the prospect of some serious horse-trading in both houses of Parliament to get the financial advice 'opt in' legislation pass...
Financial planning
The FPA welcomes continued primacy of ASIC in regulating planners on tax advice....
Editorial
Another round of research aimed at defining the attitudes of financial planners appears to have confirmed the existence of a generational divide on some of the key questi...
Superannuation
Representatives of some financial planning industry bodies have expressed anger over the lack of planner representation on the newly formed Stronger Super Peak Consultati...
Policy & Regulation
The legislative changes evolving from the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms may force the Federal Government to finally move on the tax treatment of legacy financ...
Financial planning
There is likely to be an increase in the number of Financial Planning Association (FPA) licensee members who provide mortgage broking services from the current level of a...
Editorial
The Government's Future of Financial Advice proposals may serve to alter the legislative environment but, as Mike Taylor writes, new research suggests much more is requir...
Financial planning
The current reform revolution is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to get it right and improve trust in the industry, but several proposed changes risk taking the reform...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) is offering free financial advice to those affected by the Queensland floods....
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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...