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Govt creates super advisory

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... time this week. The group is expected to meet every four months. The group includes Jo-Anne Bloch, Financial Planning Association (FPA) chief executive; John Maroney, Institute of Actuaries of Australia chief executive; Rosemary Vilgan, Qsuper chief ...

Good wine, good advice

... preliminary financial advice counted as a capital expense. However, the industry's peak body, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) is lobbying for the government to change this rule. But Leslie said that in a way it filters out people who are not ...

FPA takes it to the grassroots

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has established the Future Financial Planners Council, made up of the country's key industry players, to raise awareness of the profession among university students. The Council will design marketing material ...

Right advice delivers $1.7m

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
... actual value of professional financial advice is no simple feat, but the latest case studies by the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) found eight Australians reaped a total $1.7 million in savings and profits with the right advice. The ...

Fed Govt creates financial services task force

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... unreadable disclosure statements could be a factor in some investors' losses. In November last year, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) together with ASIC and Treasury created the short form statement of advice (SOA). "The FPA will take our short-form ...

NZ planners regs improve fee transparency

... all forms of remuneration to their clients. Local planning groups, alongside industry bodies the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), have also urged members to be more transparent with fees and disclose ...

AMP grants $100,000 to Future2

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
AMP has thrown their support behind the Financial Planning Association's (FPA) Future2 Foundation through a $100,000 donation. Corinne Dieters, trustee of Future2, said the foundation aimed to provide financial skills to young and disadvantaged Australians ...

Transparency in advice is key: Tucker

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... more transparency and understanding, said Steve Tucker, chief executive at MLC. Speaking at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) conference, Tucker said the negative perceptions covered in the media are real, and the financial planning industry should ...

Reinventing financial planning

MICHAEL HOBBS, MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
... believing it to be motivated principally by the imperative to sell a product." However, speaking at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) conference yesterday, FPA chief Jo-Anne Bloch said four out of five Australian don't seek advice because they ...

The golden age of SMSFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
... nearly twice that rate, according to Andrew Gale, partner at Trowbridge Deloitte. Speaking at the Financial Planning Association conference yesterday, Gale said regulatory changes and an aging population had driven the super industry, with superannuation ...