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ISA and AIST want changes to professionalism model

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
... conduct. The submission also suggests "a tripartite model for the composition of the Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) that includes a more appropriate balance of consumer, academic and industry representatives." Both superannuation representative ...

Industry meets behind closed doors to fix advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... how to transition the FPA-founded Financial Planning Professionals Education Council into a fully independent body. "The FPEC has worked over three years to set the core curricula for financial planners for 17 universities around the country. We have ...

Industry waiting on Frydenberg for adviser education guidance

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... raise the minimum qualification for financial advisers and the establishment of a Finance Professionals Education Council (FPEC) to set the standards. It also recommended that advisers are subject to higher mandatory ongoing professional requirements ...

FPA sets sights on lifting professional standards

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
... be the gatekeeper of minimum education standards and requirements. It also wants the Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) to be controlled and funded by professional bodies approved by the Professional Standards Councils. Looking ahead, Rantall ...

Winners of advice research grants revealed

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
The Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) has awarded the 2015 FPEC academic research grants to academics from Deakin University and the University of Western Sydney (UWS). Recipients of the grants will be awarded $5,000 each to support the research ...

FPA appoints new CRC Chair, rolls out education standards

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... profession. Mark Rantall, chief executive of the FPA, said the new framework would see the Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) gifted to the industry as an independent body that would become the gatekeeper of minimum education standards and requirements ...

FPA rejects FSC adviser regulation plans

ALICE URIBE, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... adviser specialisation. However FPA chief executive Mark Rantall said that its own Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) was a "good solution" and said that ACSB was merely more red-tape for the advice industry. "We've got more regulation than ...

FPA announces winners of research grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... Financial Planning Association (FPA) has announced the two winners of the inaugural Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) university research grants. A team from Griffith University and a consortium of academics from Griffith University, University ...

University academics to access advice research grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013
... access financial planning research grants up to $5,000 under an agreement between the Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) and the Financial Planning Association (FPA). The first round of the grants will be awarded in March 2014 after a two stage ...

FPA reiterates need for professional qualifications

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... and have one year's work experience to become a practitioner member. The FPA and the Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) launched an approved national Accreditation and Curriculum Framework for financial planning degrees in November 2012 ensuring ...