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Remuneration dilemma

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... is irrelevant because all forms of remuneration present a conflict of interest. Speaking at the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) National Conference in Melbourne in a panel discussion, Vamos said she previously worked as a life insurance ...

VicSuper searches for CIO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... implementation of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into its investment process. The fund won a number of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) annual Sustainability Reporting Awards in August including Best Sustainability ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... Australian Bureau of Statistics is to release data on sales of new motor vehicles in October. The Housing Industry Association releases its trades report for the September quarter. In companies news, building products supplier James Hardie NV releases ...

AMP exec joins planning standards board

AMP ANNOUNCEMENT  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
... financial planning licensees, which includes nearly 700 CFP professionals. Helmich also chaired the Financial Planning Association (FPA) Board from 2002 to 2004, and was awarded Life Membership in the FPA in 2007. Prior to 1996, Helmich worked as state ...

FPA names Value of Advice winners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
... Craggs from Argurion Financial Group have won the FPA's Value of Advice Awards. Wilson won the Financial Planning Association of Australia's (FPA) Value of Advice Award in the wealth accumulation and protection category. The Victorian-based financial ...

Libs reject planner commissions ban

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
... obligation towards their clients takes away the need for planner remuneration reforms. Speaking at the Financial Planning Association of Australia's (FPA) National Conference, Hockey said it should be up to financial planners to decide which form of ...

Faith in fee for service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
... planners making the "mental shift" to charging fees upfront, said a panel of experts. Speaking at the Financial Planning Association of Australia's (FPA) National Conference in Melbourne, Rhonda McKenzie, financial planner at Planning for Life, said ...

Howes appointed CEO of IAA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
... Howes, as chief executive. Howes joins the Institute from her role as director of policy and industry practice at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia, which followed four years at Alea Actuarial Consulting, an independent firm that provides ...

FPA calls for whistleblowers and more planner education

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has set up a whistleblowing service and has flagged tougher educational requirements for people who want to become financial planners. Julie Berry, chair at FPA, said the FPA Confidential is an online ...

Planners should be fiduciaries: IFSA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
... as fiduciaries is a significant extension over previous positions argued by adviser professional groups such as the Association of Financial Advisers of Australia (AFA) who have lobbied for advisers to have special responsibilities and for the term 'adviser' ...