Moves to resolve conflict of interest issues are being undermined by the 'divided loyalties' the Corporations Act encourages, argues FPA deputy chief executive Deen Sande...
With the industry coming to the end of a particularly challenging period, financial planners have good reason to be optimistic, writes Jo-Anne Bloch....
The FPA remains Australia’s dominant industry body for financial planners, but in the contest for members it is the AFA that has experienced the greatest migration of mem...
The findings of the Ripoll Inquiry have been broadly welcomed by the financial planning industry, but as Mike Taylor reports, they will ultimately be diluted by the findi...
The Government and the Treasury, rather than the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), should lead the way in implementing changes to the financial pla...
Dealer groups must adopt programs that encourage practices to employ junior financial planners, according to e-Jobs Recruitment Specialists director Trevor Punnett. ...
Financial Planning Association (FPA) executive Gerard Fitzpatrick is leaving the industry organisation to take up a role with the Australian Securities and Investments Co...
Ripoll Inquiry report airs FPA Board disagreements....
The Parliamentary Joint Committee that has investigated aspects of the financial services industry over the past nine months has made 11 wide-ranging reform recommendatio...
For the first time in its 21-year history, a woman has been awarded the Money Management Financial Planner of the Year (FPOY) title, with Anne Graham being announced the ...
The Financial Planning Association has announced the implementation of FPA Confidential, an online anonymous reporting system, in its effort to tackle misconduct in the i...
The Financial Planning Association has called for an overhaul of the education standards for financial planners, including a minimum tertiary qualification requirement by...
The board of the Financial Planning Association is considering raising the minimum education standard for advisers to a tertiary level. ...
Consolidation of dealer groups will be driven by commercial imperatives, with informal FPA modelling finding it costs smaller dealer groups $126,000 a year to support a s...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has lost numbers in both its principal and general membership bases over the past financial year....
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...