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FPA Future2 award goes to Kathy Havers

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has awarded the 2014 Future2 Community Service of the Year Award to Catalyst Financial Group adviser Kathy Havers. The award was announced at the FPA Congress in Adelaide and recognises FPA members ...

Advisers confronted with harsh reality of whistleblowing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... difference, former Commonwealth Bank adviser and whistleblower Jeff Morris told advisers at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) Congress. "There's a moment when you suddenly realise it's you doing it," Morris said, describing the moment when he ...

Stephen Godfrey awarded FPA adviser of the year

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
Brisbane-based Visis Private Wealth adviser Stephen Godfrey won the Financial Planning Association (FPA) financial planner of the year award presented at the FPA Congress in Adelaide. FPA chief executive Mark Rantall highlighted Godfrey's "fact finding ...

Grandfathering set to become next advice battlefield

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... legislation. "We are quite confident that we'll get the grandfathering provisions sorted out," Financial Planning Association (FPA) chief executive Mark Rantall told advisers at the FPA Congress in Adelaide. "The priority now is to fix grandfathering ...

FoFA opt-in to cause advisers biggest headache

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... we're living in a democratic environment and that's the way our system operates. We're waiting for direction from ASIC and the FPA. It's a wait and see again." Pierre Ong of Victoria Teachers Mutual Fund said: "It's pretty frustrating. It only came out ...

FPA Congress begins amid FoFA unrest

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) Professionals Congress kicked off in Adelaide this morning, in the wake of the Senate's disallowance of the government's changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. "Our professional body has ...

Sunsuper taps FPA adviser network

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
Sunsuper and the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) have partnered to form a national advice referral program which connects the fund's members with FPA practices across the country. The partnership sees the fund develop direct relationships ...

FoFA disallowance could put industry into breach of law

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... personnel are offered an increased pay deal was key to giving the majority to the opposition. The Financial Planning Association (FPA) condemned the disallowance, arguing that "this disallowance motion has the potential to put the entire financial services ...

Higher adviser education standards boost CFP demand

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... institutions' initiative to increase the minimum education standards for financial advisers. The Financial Planning Association (FPA), which provides the CFP certification, said that enrolments of new entrants into the program doubled last year. "At ...

Winners of advice research grants revealed

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... sector and the financial planning profession. The grants are sponsored by the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) and they recognise those that have demonstrated a commitment to encouraging the development of financial planning as an academic ...