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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
... up to $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 ...

MetLife appoints new head of distribution

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... business. He is also a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Finsia and the Financial Planning Association of Australia. "I am delighted to welcome Mike to the Australia team. He brings a vast wealth of experience in global financial ...

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 ...

Advisers, get ready to manage the baby boomer wave

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
... boomers coming into retirement, KPMG partner and demographer Bernard Salt said. Speaking at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) Conference, Salt said that the number of people that retire annually went from 40,000 per year in 1950 to 140,000 in ...

Cbus, FPA explain their referral deal

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) and Cbus explain how their pilot professional advice referral service will work. First of all, it will run from January to June 2014 and be available to Cbus members in Queensland, South Australia ...

FPA confronts advisers with their worst nightmare

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has confronted advisers at the annual Conference with the case of a young disabled woman who took $800,000 to a financial planner and lost it all due to bad advice. The client became disabled after a car accident ...

Advisers dismiss Medicare-style advice service

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
Financial Planning Association (FPA) chair Matthew Rowe has dismissed the idea of introducing a Medicare-style financial planning service, saying it would be too expensive. The idea was put to a panel of advisers and clients at the FPA Inaugural Professionals ...

Advisers need to overcome financial planning stigma

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... financial adviser, but they don't trust that amorphous thing called financial advice." Maye said at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) Conference that advisers need to overcome this stigma and regain the trust of consumers and the regulator. "Advisers ...

Platinum offers $15,000 financial planning scholarship

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
... the Neilson Foundation, has launched a new scholarship for financial planning undergraduates, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has announced. The scholarships will be offered through five Australian universities; Deakin, LaTrobe, Canberra, Western ...