In its 10th year, the 2019 Future2 Wheel Classic will feature 18 financial planners and other financial services professionals from across Australia (plus support crew), who will ride 819 kilometres over six stages from 22 November, the FPA said in a statement.
Cycling broadcaster Matthew Keenan, known for covering the world’s greatest cycling events including the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and the Vuelta a Espaňa, will join the riders on the first stage of the ride.
Riders will travel through the Daylesford Ranges and down to Apollo Bay. The group will ride the famous Amy Gillett Fondo route before cycling the Great Ocean Road and looping back to Queenscliff to catch a ferry to Sorrento, arriving at Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre on 27 November for the opening of the 2019 FPA Congress.
In addition, the Future2 Hiking Challenge will commence on 23 November, taking hikers to the Grampians mountain range. Twelve hikers will cover around 17 kilometres over two days.
MLC staff are contributing to the fundraising effort for both the Wheel Classic and Hiking Challenge and are aiming to raise $10,000 by hosting fundraising events for Future2 across their offices in five cities.
Iress, Magellan Financial Group and Pickles have also been named as partners for the Wheel Classic.
“We are grateful to our partners and for the commitment and generosity of the individual FPA members who take part in the Wheel Classic and Hiking Challenge to raise funds to support Future2,” said Future2 chair Petra Churcher.
[quote=Anonymous]…and consider a bike ride for all those Financial Planners that committed suicide… [/quote] I am would love to be in a position to make that ride happen…think IFA could get behind this. I know many advisers suffering anxiety and depression. Families breaking apart because of our current circumstances. The general public is unaware of what is going on and are appalled when a ‘face’ is put to the trauma we experience daily. If there is enough support for this I have a number of ideas like a ride across Australia (takes 25 days to ride from Sydney to Perth. Some could do the whole trip, others jump on as the peleton rides through various towns along the way…This will hit every main media outlet and radio station along the way.
[quote=Anonymous]Please explain? It’s a bit hard to know where to start when you consider the assinine conflation of incorrect statements, confused accusations and just downright mean-spiritness contained in your rant. But I will try, .[/quote]
To reply to your rant, Page 112 of the FPA annual report, sorry it’s actually $13 million on term deposit, Oh sorry but I forgot FPA members also call payments related to the Professional Partner Program as members fees whilst the rest of Australians including the Government, call them “Bribes from mates called before a Royal Commission”. Now run along, and the next time your employer pays your FPA fees for you, please draw their attention to these cash levels and consider a bike ride for all those Financial Planners that committed suicide because the FPA’s decision to go to bed with product manufacturers.
FPA charity bike ride….over a cliff?
Fingers crossed these guys will make it all the way. I know the FPA has “lost it’s way” on just about all the issues impacting advisers. Let the puns begin. On ya bike FPA and don’t come back.
I believe the Charity Movember is copping some flack about the $180 million sitting in cash on their balance sheet when it could be better off handed over to researchers and scientist today.
The FPA has over $10 million sitting in cash and they’re asking planners & readers for donations. I’m sorry but this year I say…go $$@$ yourself. I really do question the morals of FPA board directors forcing these wonderful planners into raising funds for a very worthy cause when there’s $10 million earning term deposit rates waiting to be used “some day”. I would have thought lobbying FASEA or Treasury would have been “the” day, but apparently this mere service provider of webinars, conferences and cut sandwiches (no longer an association) the FPA thinks worse is to come. These guys could ride to ASIC and back 120 times and they’d never raise $1 million and the FPA would still have $9 million earning 1.5% and net assets over $11 million. Just why does the FPA need $12 million in net assets? Please explain.
Please explain? It’s a bit hard to know where to start when you consider the assinine conflation of incorrect statements, confused accusations and just downright mean-spiritness contained in your rant.
But I will try, because all the financial planners and members of the public who contribute to Future2, all the FPA members and others who freely give your time, and most importantly, for all the community organisations working with young Australians who have received grants over $1.2m since it started. And you can find out just by reading here:
https://future2foundation.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Future2-Annual-Review-2018_lr.pdf
They even put some nice picture in it so maybe you can understand, cause you clearly can’t read financial statements.
Now I say…. go $$@$ yourself.
There are still FPA members? Wow!
Great work MLC/FPA. Good to see you getting behind the community!
now if only they got behind advisers….