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It's time to work together: MDRT

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2006
... local advisers and associations, like the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and the Financial Planning Association (FPA), worked together collaboratively. MDRT has 180 members in Australia, a number it hopes to increase five-fold in the next five ...

FPA broadens entry to CFP

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has broadened its entry criteria into the certified planner program in what it said is an effort to raise standards at a time when the industry's professionalism is coming under greater scrutiny. As of 1 January ...

Praemium adds NSW head of sales

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2006
... client adviser, and was the business development manager and chapter development manager of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) while most recently working with Tribeca as their key account manager. The appointment follows the recent additions of ...

Fiducian adds advisers SMSF course

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2006
... ticks in the right boxes from ASIC's perspective." The four day course will be run through Tribeca and will add to the 50 FPA accredited training hours and two Financial Planning Association (FPA) accredited professional development days that Fiducian's ...

Value of advice shines at Tupicoffs

... his one-off pro-bono work for a low income client saw them nearly $300,000 better off. Announced the winner of this year's FPA Value of Advice Award in the low income planning category, we spoke to Kendall to find out whether he had struck on a profitable ...

FPA preps members on conflicts of interest principles

... financial planners are putting their own paycheque before their clients' best interests, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has issued a guide designed to help their members manage potential conflicts of interest. The four key principles for managing ...

FPA announces Value of Advice Awards 2006

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has announced the winners of the inaugural Value of Advice Awards 2006. There are four main categories namely 'wealth accumulation', 'post-retirement planning and management', 'low income planning' and 'pre-retirement ...

FPA CEO formally signs on

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2006
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) announced that Jo-Anne Bloch has formally stepped into the role of chief executive officer after her appointment was announced in March. Bloch anticipates spending her first few weeks looking at policy issues ...

Associations need to raise standards themselves: Pearce

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2006
... to take raising standards into their own hands. Opening the financial planning week for the Financial Planning Association (FPA) yesterday, Pearce said the industry was best left to self-regulation within the existing legal framework. "While regulation ...

FPA opens membership door to individual CFPs

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2006
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has opened up their membership to more financial planners by finally doing away with the requirement that their members work for an FPA-affiliated dealer group. The restriction, that previously meant any certified ...