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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 ...

Griffith, FPA launch academic advice journal

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
Griffith Business School and the Financial Planning Association (FPA) will publish an academic journal dedicated to financial planning. The Financial Planning Research Journal will publish academic research around financial advice and it is aimed at ...

Forward-thinking advisers benefit from opt-in deadline

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
ASIC's "facilitative approach" to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) opt-in and fee disclosure statement requirements ends today, but forward-thinking practices have nothing to worry about. The deadline was originally June 30, 2014, but it was extended ...

Trowbridge salutes risk reforms package

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
Life Insurance and Advice Working Group (LIAWG) chair John Trowbridge has applauded the industry-led risk reforms package. After the industry bodies behind the LIAWG - the Association of Financial Advisers, Financial Planning Association of Australia ...

Industry moves away from upfront commissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
Australia's life insurance advisers and providers have reached an agreement to transition from high upfront commissions to alternative remuneration models. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the ...

FPA pushes for three-year opt-ins

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
The Financial Planning Association is pushing for member clients to receive three-year opt-in notices rather than the two-year arrangement proposed in the Future of Financial Advice reforms. Speaking to Financial Standard, FPA chief executive Mark Rantall ...

Former FPA chair to leave Hood Sweeney

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
After six years as managing director of South Australian financial services firm Hood Sweeney, Matthew Rowe recently announced he would not seek re-appointment in the position. A former Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) chair, Rowe will ...

Treasury extends tax debate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
Treasurer Joe Hockey has announced the submissions deadline for the Tax White Paper will be extended by six weeks to July 24. Hockey said that this was because of the "strong public response" to the whitepaper along with "stakeholder interest in the ...

AFA, FPA yet to commit to FSC life risk agenda

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
Both the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) have refused to comment on whether a final consensus has been reached on the way forward for risk advice reforms. This follows the report in Financial ...

Asteron discusses alternative commission structure

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
The latest in a gamut of life insurers to adopt, or at least consider, hybrid commission structures comes from Suncorp-owned Asteron Life. Following recent announcements by Centrepoint Alliance, AMP, Fortnum, Findex and Centric Wealth, Asteron Life ...