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FPA reiterates need for professional qualifications

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... qualification and have one year's work experience to become a practitioner member. The FPA and the Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) launched an approved national Accreditation and Curriculum Framework for financial planning degrees in November ...

Professional membership sees advisers paid more

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... national financial planning degree curriculum launched by the FPA in conjunction with the Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) today.

Aligned or independent: Advisers must be relevant

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... themselves, through better service levels, and by providing good advice that can be tailored," he says. "To be successful, financial advice businesses of the future will either need to be niche, specialised and independent or large, multi-sector and ...

Talkin' bout my generation

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... help establish the industry as a profession. The third and final ingredient if the public were to recognise financial planning as a profession is an industry framework built on ethics. "The key is having a high ethical standard that must be ingrained ...

FPA launches consultation on financial planning education

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
The Financial Planning Association, in conjunction with the Financial Planning Education Council, will launch a national consultation framework on the curriculum and accreditation requirements for financial planning education in Australia. In 2011 ...

Industry backs MySuper reforms

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
... Council. "Without fixing the default fund award provisions, the whole reform package is undermined." Not enough? Financial planning bodies, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), said the missing ingredient ...

Reverse mortgage standards under fire

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2007
... surprising. "I think the message there [on the mortgage broker side] is generally that it's not surprising that training and education of brokers has room for improvement. I think the whole industry, both lenders and industry bodies, are trying to lift ...

Industry figures to participate on Government's super choice committee

Howard Rosario, CEO, Westcheme and Linda Elkins, director of 'Education Key' - a joint initiative between REST, Sunsuper and STA - will be part of the Government's superannuation choice of fund advisory committee. The five-person independent advisory ...
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