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FPA award winners embrace FOFA

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
The FPA Best Practice award winners are also those leading way in FOFA-compliant practices, with the association awarding those at the forefront of their industry. Speaking with Financial Standard after their win, Pippa Elliot, CFP, of WA planning firm ...

Planners lack social media commitment

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... planner session. Rachel Staggs, founder and chief executive of SRS Coaching and Consulting, told Financial Planning Association (FPA) conference delegates of the key mistakes planners make in social media. In a full room, Staggs noted immediately the ...

FPA welcomes standards

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... the opening session of the annual Financial Planning Association conference in Brisbane. Key Financial Planning Association (FPA) heads discussed the active role planners must play in their industry and how those who don't keep up may fall by the wayside. ...

FOFA will pass: Shorten, FPA

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Bill Shorten and the FPA agree that the FOFA reforms will pass through parliament, with the Minister urging planners to embrace change as a necessary survival tool for the betterment of the industry. ...

Political debate defers FOFA clarity

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... would a possible delay to the implementation of FOFA mean for the industry? "No member of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) can receive commissions from July 1 2012," according to the FPA's general manager policy and government relations, Dante ...

ANZ Wealth appoints head of practice based fin planning

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... active in influencing the future direction of our industry having sat on the FSC Financial Advisory Network Board and the FPA Future Financial Planner Committee." Younger will start his new role on December 5.

AMP University Challenge winner named

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... business student from La Trobe University, its 2011 winner. Created by AMP and supported by the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and Financial Planning Academic Forum, the competition is designed to raise the profile of financial planning among universities ...

CHOICE, ISN hit back at associations aspersions

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... that this commonplace arrangement should not apply to financial planners. Mack claimed the Financial Planning Association (FPA) was well aware of the feature before the Bill reached parliament and that the best in the industry have been acting under ...

FOFA reaches parliament with undisclosed feature

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
After many months of discussion, the FOFA Bill has finally reached parliament but planning associations the AFA and the FPA have slammed the motion after a new feature was revealed without prior consultation with the industry. Minister for Financial ...

Tax forum tackles wealth management issues

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... three-pillared retirement income system," said Andrea Slattery, SPAA chief executive. The Financial Planning Association (FPA) chief executive, Mark Rantall, addressed the Tax Forum to ask the Government to provide aid incentives to encourage Australians ...