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Cormann to take over Sinodinos' duties

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... the policy that has turned into the reforms of the Future of Financial Advice legislation," the Financial Planning Association (FPA) chief executive Mark Rantall told Financial Standard. The Association of Financial Advice (AFA) chief executive Brad ...

Government limits general advice exemption in FoFA amendments

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... of reintroducing commissions, but it limits it and makes it unlikely that they come back," the Financial Planning Association (FPA) general manager of policy and government relations Dante De Gori told Financial Standard. "We would have liked to see ...

FoFA introduced into parliament with some tweaks

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... the receipt of conflicted remuneration to employees only of a financial services licensee. The Financial Planning Association (FPA) welcomed the changes to the bill. "Whilst this policy shift tightens the pre-conditions under which conflicted remuneration ...

FoFA changes to be tabled today

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... amendments to parliament. Dante De Gori, general manager, policy and government relations at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) said he expects the government to introduce the changes both as legislation and regulation. "Our understanding is the ...

Professional planners don't accept commissions: FPA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... the conflicts of interest commissions create cannot be managed, says Matthew Rowe, chair of the Financial Planning Association. "We don't believe that a commission should be payable on any form of investment or superannuation, regardless of whether it's ...

Advice industry under-prepared for younger client base

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... industry is too sales focused. The two major bodies representing the industry in Australia, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) are aware of the problem and have initiatives in place to encourage a ...

FPA "extremely wary" of general advice commissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) submission to Treasury on the proposed amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) says the organisation is "extremely wary of product distribution models which rely on general advice." The 20-page document ...

FPA foundation appoints board members

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) foundation, Future2, has appointed two directors to its board. FPA chief executive Mark Rantall and ipac chief executive Patrick Canion were appointed to the board chaired by AMP executive director of financial ...

FPA puts TASA back in the agenda

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is putting the Tax Agent Services Act (TASA) 2009 back on the advisers' agenda ahead of the implementation in July 1, 2014. The association has put together four webinars and a toolkit campaign that aim to educate ...

FoFA reform brings general advice into the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... for Financial Services and Superannuation Bernie Ripoll, Industry Super Australia (ISA) and the Financial Planning Association (FPA) have said that the exemption to general advice could bring back the commissions that FoFA intended to eliminate. However ...