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FPA confirms redundancies

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
The Financial Planning Association of Australia has unveiled its five-year plan, which includes redundancies. The FPA is calling its new strategy the MAC strategy, focused on members, advocacy and consumers. The plan involves a restructure of the organisation ...

Retirement funder adds two new executives

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... new role of head of Commonwealth Bank retail bank compliance, and was previously director Legal Australian Bankers' Association and head of credit for Telstra. "Delivering 'Live Well at Home' solutions for senior Australians is hugely rewarding," Bishop ...

Sole purpose test poses SMSF rent relief issue

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... SIS Act) could also see landlord's run into problems. According to the Self-managed Independent Superannuation Funds Association (SISFA) said these possible complications shouldn't put landlords off from trying to help their tenants. It pointed out that ...

FASEA unclear why advisers are quitting

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... FASEA takes enquiries directly from advisers and corresponds with advice associations including the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), as well as the SMSF Association among others. There ...

FASEA extension en route

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... different interests offered a mix of responses to the government's decision yesterday. The Financial Planning Association of Australia was pleased, and called on the Senate to "urgently" turn its attention to the FASEA extension bill. "We welcome ...

AMP, Pendal launch new managed portfolio

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... invests responsibly and ethically across the board." AMP's platform business is a member of the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA).

SISFA relaunches membership to SMSF trustees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Self-managed Independent Superannuation Funds Association (SISFA) has redesigned and is relaunching its membership offering for SMSF trustees. SISFA said through existing communication channels and those of new associated partners and sponsors, up to ...

FASEA blame game on in earnest

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... it returned on June 10, and said Labor had heard from both the Financial Services Union and the Financial Planning Association of Australia about what the legislation means to "ordinary financial planners". "Australians deserve to be able to access affordable ...

Merging super funds guaranteed tax relief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... times, and we are pleased to see the government delivering on its Budget announcement to make this a permanent policy." Association of Super Funds of Australia chief executive Martin Fahy said the association "strongly supported" a super industry which ...

Road to recovery

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... and what the post-pandemic world will look like. Kyle Loades, chair of the Australian Transformation and Turnaround Association (AusTTA) suggests that while the business and investment worlds have ben reluctant to take on companies and strategies that ...