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FPA Future2 award goes to Kathy Havers

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... Community Service of the Year Award to Catalyst Financial Group adviser Kathy Havers. The award was announced at the FPA Congress in Adelaide and recognises FPA members who have, in a pro bono or public service capacity, made an outstanding contribution ...

Advisers confronted with harsh reality of whistleblowing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... difference, former Commonwealth Bank adviser and whistleblower Jeff Morris told advisers at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) Congress. "There's a moment when you suddenly realise it's you doing it," Morris said, describing the moment when he ...

Stephen Godfrey awarded FPA adviser of the year

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... Stephen Godfrey won the Financial Planning Association (FPA) financial planner of the year award presented at the FPA Congress in Adelaide. FPA chief executive Mark Rantall highlighted Godfrey's "fact finding analysis and strategic client review process." ...

Grandfathering set to become next advice battlefield

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... grandfathering provisions sorted out," Financial Planning Association (FPA) chief executive Mark Rantall told advisers at the FPA Congress in Adelaide. "The priority now is to fix grandfathering because as an adviser you need to have portability to buy ...

FPA Congress begins amid FoFA unrest

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) Professionals Congress kicked off in Adelaide this morning, in the wake of the Senate's disallowance of the government's changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. "Our professional body has ...

Cormann to welcome cyclist advisers at FPA conference

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... complete a seven-day journey from November 13 to 19 by riding into the welcome event of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) Professionals Congress in Adelaide. The annual cycling fundraiser, the Wheel Classic, hopes to raise $100,000 to donate to ...

AMP University Challenge winners revealed

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... on Thursday night. First prize was $5,000 cash (for the winning team to share), along with registration to attend the 2014 FPA Professionals Congress in Adelaide and a student membership to the association as well as attendance to the 2015 AMP Planner ...

Ray Martin to open FPA 2014 Conference

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
Journalist and media personality Ray Martin will be opening this year's Financial Planning Association (FPA) Professionals' Congress in Adelaide. Martin will host the inaugural discussion along with former supermodel and writer Tara Moss, Punchbowl ...

Platinum steps up focus on adviser market

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has revealed that Platinum Asset Management will be its main sponsor for its 2014 Professionals Congress in Adelaide in November. In an interview with Financial Standard in April, Platinum co-founder and managing ...

Advisers, do not read headlines: Kerr Neilson

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... "Ignore the headlines, they will not help you very much at all," Neilson said. Speaking at a Financial Planning Association (FPA) roadshow in Sydney this week, Neilson argued that news tend to hit the headlines days or even months later than when economic ...