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Universities must prepare for adviser reforms: FPA

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... new programs ahead of the looming professional standards deadline. In partnership with the Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC), the FPA is working with universities in implementing curriculum reforms ahead of the 1 January 2019 deadline for new ...

Griffith, FPA launch academic advice journal

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... direct response to what both academics and practitioners have recommended through the FPA Financial Planning Education Council." The first edition of The Financial Planning Research Journal will be launched at the annual Personal Finance and Investment ...

ISA and AIST want changes to professionalism model

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
... codes of 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 ...

FPA sets sights on lifting professional standards

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
... body to 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 ...

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
... enable 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 ...

FPA announces winners of research grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
The 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
... to 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 ...

FPA reiterates need for professional qualifications

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... qualification 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 ...