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FPA helps advisers with life insurance

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has launched a guide helping its members identify and address common omissions and errors in providing life insurance advice. The FPA's comprehensive Life Insurance Advice guide had input from members ...

FPA retirement planning scholarships awarded

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
The Financial Planning Association of Australia and Challenger have awarded five UNSW scholarships for FPA members to study retirement planning. The scholarship winners are KeyPlay Financial Services' Anthony White, MyState Wealth Management's Philip ...

FSC, FPA support ASIC user-pay model

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
Both the Financial Services Council and Financial Planning Association of Australia have voiced their support for an industry funding model for ASIC. On August 28, Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg welcomed industry consultation on the proposal while ...

Australians seeing Centrelink as "life insurance substitute"

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... Centrelink as effective substitutes, suggests research commissioned by Zurich and the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA). The research, carried out by CoreData, is the basis for the Zurich/FPA Insurance Literacy Index, which is designed ...

FPA awards open to submissions

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has opened its 2015 awards to submissions. In addition to the FPA Certified Financial Planner Professional of the Year, FPA Financial Planner AFP of the Year, and Future2 Community Service awards ...

ANZ addressing women's financial futures

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2015
... social enterprise 10thousandgirl, with support from various organisations including the Financial Planning Association of Australia.

Singapore looks to Australia on risk reforms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... agreed upon by the Financial Services Council, Association of Financial Advisers and Financial Planning Association of Australia, the reforms target remuneration structures in insurance advice and the strengthening of financial advice as a distinct profession. ...

AFA tweaking life insurance framework

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... Advisers is refining aspects of the Life Insurance Framework developed jointly with the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) and Financial Services Council (FSC). The three industry associations reached consensus with Assistant Treasurer ...

FPA announces CFP award winner

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has announced the winner of its third Gwen Fletcher Memorial Award. Apt Wealth Partners head of advice and director John Moran received the award - named after the financial planning pioneer - for ...

Forward-thinking advisers benefit from opt-in deadline

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... opt-in regime and fee disclosure arrangements. As reported in Financial Standard, the Financial Planning Association of Australia is seeking ASIC's approval for its own code of conduct, which will obviate the need for FPA members to comply directly with ...