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Financial Planners want level playing field on commissions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... amount of stock bought, the Financial Review has reported. But Mark Rantall, chief executive of the Financial Planning Association told Financial Standard that if commissions encouraged stockbrokers or financial planners to provide advice in a certain ...

AMP looks to uni for future planners

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... is about lifting the profile of the profession," said Helmich. The program is supported by the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Financial Planning Academics Forum, with groups to submit a case study in response to a hypothetical client case ...

Advisers hampered by conflicted platforms

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... bit, with advisers required to satisfy the "best interest" duty towards their client, she said. Financial Planning Association (FPA) chief executive Mark Rantall would not be drawn on the conflict of interest created for financial advisers when platform ...

Free advice sparks Financial Planning Week

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... Week kicks off today with six weeks of free online financial advice for consumers organised by the Financial Planning Association. The free advice is designed to give people a taste of what they could enjoy if they took the step of going to see a professional ...

Planners chance to get involved

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
The Financial Planning Association has opened its entire committee structure up to members so they can get involved. The organisation is trying to galvanise its 8000 members to action as it seeks legal recognition of the professional status of financial ...

FPA urge Treasury to revise legis

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has come out in support of the banning of volume-based payments but warn that if its proceeds as currently set, it will be the end of pure platforms. While debating the prevalence of product neutral platforms ...

Industry funds primed for more planning deals

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... the scrubbing of rebates so I think there will be more and more of an open market," he added. The Financial Planning Association has backed the AustralianSuper alliance with planning groups to benefit members, who should ideally receive independent financial ...

Advisers launch FOFA attack

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... vote, they know exactly what they are voting for on the proposed FOFA legislation," he said. The Financial Planning Association, which has 8000 members, said it had also been making the rallying call. Chief executive Mark Rantall told Financial Standard ...

Licensee tests offer planners protection

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... to be subject to the same best interest tests, according to the Government's FOFA reforms. The Financial Planning Association (FPA) said that one of its recommendations included in the FOFA reforms package was "...consideration of the extent of the best ...

Accountants attack planners over naming rights

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... standards. "Nor will it bring back the millions of dollars lost to Storm or Westpoint." But the Financial Planning Association (FPA) attempted to soothe the situation, saying the accountants had got it wrong. "We don't want to exclude other professions," ...

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