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Government releases FoFA amendments

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013
... impartial adviser or a sales rep, and will ultimately reduce confidence in financial advice." The Financial Planning Association (FPA) welcomed the announcement but noted that "there is still room to improve." "We feel there is more to be done to streamline ...

FSC asks Son of Wallis Inquiry to focus on export growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
... financial advisers and to review the impact of the FoFA and MySuper legislation on the sector. The Financial Planning Association (FPA) asked Treasury to allow time for the dust to settle after the major changes brought by the Future of Financial Advice ...

Advisers "hopeful" to hear FoFA changes before 2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
... longer because they depend on the Senate, which is due to start sittings in mid-2014. The Financial Planning Association (FPA) general manager of policy and government relations Dante De Gori said that the organisation is also in talks with the government ...

FPA to lobby against FoFA redundancy

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will lobby to take the opt-in requirement and other redundancies out of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms as soon as the government issues its proposal to amend the legislation. "Opt-in is redundant ...

FPA expects TASA to require "massive" efforts

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) expects the advice industry and the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) to go through "a massive matching process" to determine competency requirements for advisers under the Tax Agent Services Act (TASA). FPA chief ...

Government to discuss alternative funding for LISC

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
... own members, we submit that we should work very hard to find an alternative," she said. The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Financial Services Council (FSC) have also made submissions to the committee calling for a rethink on the LISC. The ...

Industry bodies call for Government LISC U-turn

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013
... $18,800 of income, up to the $37,000 threshold. Among the bodies calling for a rethink are the Financial Planning Association (FPA), the Financial Services Council (FSC), The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), The Australian Institute ...

FPA to hold 2014 Congress in Adelaide

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will hold its next annual conference on November 20 to 21, 2014, in Adelaide. The organisation said this year's conference gathered over 1,000 financial planners in Sydney. The most popular sessions were personal ...

University academics to access advice research grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013
... $5,000 under an agreement between the Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) and the Financial Planning Association (FPA). The first round of the grants will be awarded in March 2014 after a two stage application process. Initial expressions of ...

Pro bono advice for bushfire victims

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is asking its members to give pro bono advice to victims of the bushfires in New South Wales. The FPA reminded members of their "wider community responsibility as professional financial planners." In an announcement ...