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Technology can ease adviser red tape: Academic

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... Pamela Hanrahan, a lawyer and professor at University to New South Wales Business School, told Financial Planning Association of Australia members this morning that affordable advice for all and a thriving advice industry are achievable. At the virtual ...

Sam Henderson pleads guilty

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
... recommendation would have seen the client $500,000 worse off. When that client complained to the Financial Planning Association of Australia, Henderson allegedly called her "aggressive" and "nit-picking". Commissioner Kenneth Hayne did not accept Henderson's ...

Calls for consent forms, opt-ins to be scrapped

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... accessible to ordinary Australians. Ardino and Harrison appeared to hit back at suggestions from the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) that an overhaul of the Australian financial services licence (AFSL) system could be the solution to ...

FPA award nominations open, new award announced

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2020
The Financial Planning Association of Australia has announced a new category in its annual FPA Awards, set to recognise members who have used technologies in innovative ways to deliver advice. The FPA Advice Innovation Award has been introduced to highlight ...

APRA intervention blindsided AFA, FPA taskforce

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... individual disability income insurance. Association of Financial Advisers chief executive Phil Kewin and Financial Planning Association of Australia chief executive Date De Gori discussed the many reforms facing the life insurance and financial advice ...

Calls for broad default life insurance system

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... includes members from AIA, MLC Life, TAL and Zurich plus the Association of Financial Advisers and Financial Planning Association of Australia. A research paper released by the group said Australia needs a broad 'default' life insurance system ...

AFA, FPA share bleak view of industry

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
The Association of Financial Advisers and Financial Planning Association of Australia have appeared before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, sharing austere views of the financial advice industry. AFA general manager, policy ...

FPA, TPB to share information

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
The Financial Planning Association of Australia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Tax Practitioners Board, in a move which both parties say will set out a clear framework for engagement, cooperation and proactive information sharing ...

FPA Congress moves online

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has announced the 2020 FPA Virtual Congress masterclass series will go live on July 9. The FPA is offering its Congress format as a virtual event for the first time in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

FASEA extension passes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... difficult the constant threats to the extension being achieved this year added significant pressure." Financial Planning Association of Australia chief executive Dante De Gori also welcomed the passing of the extensions, thanking Senator Hume for responding ...