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Planning industry unified on commissions: AMP

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011
... to AMP head. Steve Helmich, AMP's director of financial planning, advice and services and a member on the FPA standards board, said that while the Australian industry can always learn from the Canadian and US planning industries, our local market has ...

Superpartners adds risk expert to board

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... to being part of a very meaningful industry." Since 2004, Kelsall has been chair of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board, a statutory agency of the Australian Government. She also sits on the boards of Melbourne Water, the Public Transport Ombudsman ...

Planner associations at different stages globally

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... topic as to the role an association should play. All FPAs are members of the global body called Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB), which includes Australia, Brazil, Taiwan, India, China and France among others. The FPSB sets standards at an international ...

APESB extends consultation

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
The Accounting Professional & Ethical Standards Board (APESB) has extended its consultation period on a proposal to ban members who offer financial planning services from charging asset-based fees from July next year. The Accounting Professional & Ethical ...

AFAC and APESB launch fresh debate on fiduciary duty

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MEDIA RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... Financial, PIS and Securitor have formed a new alliance in response to draft proposals from the accounting ethical standards board banning its members from charging asset-based fees from July next year. On 30 June, the Accounting Professional & Ethical ...

Planners brace for fiduciary revolution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... programs and that adviser education standards be raised and monitored through the establishment of a professional standards board. The Report in this regard was highly critical of the regulator for not being pro-active enough. "The committee is firmly ...

AMP exec joins planning standards board

AMP ANNOUNCEMENT  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
... global standards-setting body after Steve Helmich from AMP was selected to join the board of the Financial Planning Standards Board Ltd. (FPSB). Financial Planning Standards Board Ltd. (FPSB), owner of the CFP, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER and CFP Logo ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... improved US bank profits would be based on changes to mark-to-market accounting rules by the US Financial Accounting Standards Board on April 2 that will lessen the effect of losses on banks' balance sheets. "It's a bit of fiction they've created by ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
... with MF Global, Anthony Anderson, said changes overnight to accounting standards by the US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) had buoyed the market. The changes meant that US banks are able to use internal valuation models to value off-balance ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
... financial pressure on banks. Financial stocks led the rally, getting a big boost after the Financial Accounting Standards Board relaxed accounting rules forcing banks to value their assets at current prices. The change should help banks reduce losses. ...