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Financial planning

The Future of Financial Advice reforms will see the end of commissions and the introduction of fee-for-service for planners. Mike Taylor hosts a roundtable to discuss wha...

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Financial planning

A number of advisers and dealer group heads have expressed frustration at a perceived lack of support from the funds management industry in protecting advisers against de...

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Financial planning

Centric Wealth has released its own professional standards of best practice, which have received the endorsement of the Financial Planning Association (FPA)....

Financial planning

Student membership numbers up but practitioner numbers down in what outgoing Chair Julie Berry acknowledges as a period of growing pains for both the industry and its pea...

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Financial planning

Financial Planning Association chief Mark Rantall has warned against the pricing pressures created by “over regulation”, resulting in an inflation of the cost...

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Editorial

As the Federal Treasury works to find common ground on financial services reform, Mike Taylor suggests that an examination of those being consulted raises as many questio...

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Financial planning

The high cost of advice, driven up by regulatory barriers, is the main reason Australians are not seeking advice, according to Financial Planning Association chief execut...

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Financial planning

Concerns have been raised about the nature of the professional development being delivered to advisers at dealer group conferences....

Editorial

Financial planners must rebut the Industry Super Network's claim that asset-based fees are commissions by another name, writes Mike Taylor....

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Financial planning

The FPA has announced the three new directors who will join the board following the recent FPA board elections, and all three will be practising CFPs....

Policy & Regulation

The FPA and the Association AFA are confident that the industry has the ear of Treasury as the consultation around the Future of Financial Advice reforms has resumed....

Editorial

With accountancy body the National Tax and Accountants' Association setting up a financial planning arm specifically aimed at getting accountants back into the advice spa...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association is set to take the next steps in transitioning from an industry organisation to a professional association....

Financial planning

Practice management consultancy E&W Strategic Partners has released a transition to fee-for-service handbook that it believes goes beyond the pricing of advice....

Financial planning

FPA board candidates query use of “independent assessments” on ballot papers....

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