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FPA principles push fee transparency to highest levels ever

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has launched a set of principles in a bid to improve planner fee transparency and give consumers more control over charges and commissions. While the move is designed to give consumers more control and awareness ...

Thirty dealer groups up for $300m in Westpoint recovery

... said. As more sources predict an imminent start to class action proceedings in coming weeks, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has announced that it is also conducting investigations into some of its members, following 10 complaints against members ...

FPA and ASIC warn consumers to defend against fraudsters

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has warned Australians to check that their adviser is licensed, while the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has launched a free e-newsletter to arm investors with information about fraudulent ...

AIOFP forms Westpoint Recovery Fund

... group's directors and auditor KPMG for misrepresenting the company's financial health. Meanwhile the Financial Planning Association (FPA) released a statement saying that planners have to ensure they put investor's needs first, by implication regardless ...

FPA adds marketing man and banker to Board

The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has appointed new directors to its board commencing as current CEO, Kerrie Kelly, prepares for her departure. Bruce Foy, an investment banker, and Rob Gerrand, a marketing consultant, will replace ...

Kelly trades in financial planning for insurance

... ended today when it was announced that Kerrie Kelly is abdicating her short lived post with the Financial Planning Association (FPA) to take up a career in insurance. Kelly will take on the role of executive director of the Insurance Council of Australia ...

FPA chief exec Kelly resigns

The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has started the search for a new CEO, after Kerrie Kelly announced her resignation only two years after taking up the position in 2003. Kelly will leave the FPA in March to take up another CEO role ...

Keep it short and simple: ASIC

... planners - who would provide 'written advice' as opposed to just 'oral advice' to clients - the Financial Planning Association (FPA) said they welcome the move. "It's something that fits into the bigger picture of simplifying the financial services regulation ...

Charity begins at Hunter Hall

... weeks after a recent address given by Coca-Cola Amatil chief David Gonski to the members of the Financial Planning Association (FPA). In his speech, Gonski encouraged financial advisers to align themselves with a charity group or to set up their own ...

Returns after-tax are the maingame: Vanguard

... of the "hidden sting" behind the annual median returns posted by Australian share funds, at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) national conference on the Gold Coast, last week. "Investors in many Australian share funds had a good reason to smile ...