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AMP rolling out enhanced goals-based advice business

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
... client meeting. First prize for the winning team was $5000 along with registration to attend the 2017 FPA Professionals Congress.

FPA reveals annual award finalists

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2017
... Planning Association of Australia received a record number of entries for the 2017 FPA Awards ahead of its Professionals Congress in Hobart next month. Announcing the award finalists, FPA chief executive Dante De Gori said he was impressed by the volume ...

Enter the dragon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... from 6.6% it forecast in April this year - before easing to 6.5% next year. The roadmap provided in the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China - 18 - 24 October - indicates there will be more of the same. That is, onwards and upwards ...

Inflated attention on September US CPI inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
... inflation projections in terms of the PCE price index. This shift, announced by Alan Greenspan during his testimony to Congress, came after extensive analysis done by the Fed. The conclusion was that the PCE has several advantages over the CPI, including ...

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... radar. The tax policy waxed and waned on lack of policy detail and speculations as to whether or not it would be passed by Congress - given its negative impact on the US Budget deficit. Reuters reports that: "The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget ...

China industrial profits surge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2017
It's still about three weeks before the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) convenes on the 18 October but the latest data on the country's industrial profits indicate that it'll be easier for the Politburo to achieve its targets ...

Adviser education renews ethics focus

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... respond accordingly." The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) is addressing ethics at its Professionals Congress in November. Click to view the congress program. Disclosure and transparency aren't enough - an adviser might be open and transparent ...

FPA Congress will highlight value of relationships

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2017
... couples will share their stories with planners at the Financial Planning Association of Australia's 2017 Professional Congress, encouraging them to reassess the ways in which they establish and develop meaningful client relationships. The FPA Congress ...

Global healing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
... most of Trump's promised reflationary policies would encounter the same fate - or at the very least, watered down by the Congress and/or the Senate. We can discuss the why's and why not's for each and every Trump-promised policy's approval but the fact ...

Obamacare one, Trump nil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... the credibility of the democratic process in America. Despite having control of the government trifecta - White House, Congress, Senate - the Donald, the "dealmaker", was unable to negotiate a deal to repeal Obamacare. While it's a slap on the face for ...