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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
... interests duty, 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 ...

Trowbridge salutes risk reforms package

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... reforms package. After the industry bodies behind the LIAWG - the Association of Financial Advisers, Financial Planning Association of Australia and Financial Services Council - failed to reach consensus on how to implement the recommendations in Trowbridge's ...

Industry moves away from upfront commissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... commissions to alternative remuneration models. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Financial Services Council (FSC) have agreed on a new model for the industry after weeks of negotiations. Financial ...

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
... 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 remain in close association with Hood Sweeney throughout the remainder of 2015 to ensure ...

Treasury extends tax debate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... recognition of inflation would be a harsh treatment and result in lower levels of investment." The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA), suggesting that the discount may not "continue to serve the original policy purpose for which it was ...

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
... how they are performing. Financial Standard understands that the Financial Services Council, the Financial Planning Association and The Association of Financial Advisers are meeting regularly to discuss a possible joint industry response to the issue ...