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FPA and AFA back members to remain in industry

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) do not expect many of their members to exit the industry as a result of the government's financial advice reforms. Deen Sanders, acting chief executive at the FPA ...

Risk commission debate heats up

RUTH LIEW AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... revived the debate on insurance fees and prompted two other industry bodies to have their say. The Financial Planning Association yesterday called for commission payments for risk products to continue despite agreeing last year that commissions on superannuation ...

Commission on risk products should continue: FPA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has called for commission payments for risk products to continue, citing fee-for-advice payments on risk products could make life insurance too expensive for clients. According to a press statement, the FPA Board ...

Advisers to boost political clout

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
... pushing failed MIS products such as those offered by Timbercorp and Great Southern. Meanwhile the Financial Planning Association of Australia said it has two forums for its 600 principal members, who are Australian financial services licensees: the Small ...

FPA launches anonymous reporting service

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has launched its confidential misconduct reporting facility, FPA Confidential. Jo-Anne Bloch, chief executive at the FPA, said the system, which was developed in conjunction with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, would ...

FPA loses chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
Jo-Anne Bloch, chief executive of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), has resigned - a decision that took the FPA by surprise. Bloch spent three years as chief executive at the FPA. During this time she led the revamp of its professionalism framework ...

AMP planners back fee for service APL

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... firm met with financial planners in May last year and asked whether or not it should wait for the Financial Planning Association (FPA) deadline or start as soon as possible. "We asked them if they saw any reason not to transition now and the resounding ...

Clearview technical manager jumps to FPA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
The Financial Planning Association has appointed former Clearview technical services manager Dante De Gori as general manager policy and government relations. FPA chief executive, Jo-Anne Bloch, said De Gori has participated in numerous FPA Committees ...

AFA calls for more consultation on education

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) said the Financial Planning Association of Australia's (FPA) education consultation paper includes some "good ideas" and called for a truly consultative approach to developing education standards. Richard ...

Remuneration dilemma

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... is irrelevant because all forms of remuneration present a conflict of interest. Speaking at the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) National Conference in Melbourne in a panel discussion, Vamos said she previously worked as a life insurance ...