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FPA chair addresses member criticism

In this special edition of The ifa Show, Aleks Vickovich gives Financial Planning Association chair Neil Kendall an opportunity to respond to some of the most commonly heard member concerns around the mandatory standards regime and the FPA’s role in the new era.

by Staff Reporter
February 23, 2018
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In this exclusive interview, Mr Kendall discusses:

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  • The 10-year rule and sideline conversations with FASEA
  • Debate over the ongoing value of the CFP designation
  • Mark Brimble’s resignation from the FPEC chair post
  • The Professional Partner Program and monetary ties to licensees
  • Independence, vertical integration and the best interests duty

 

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Comments 10

  1. Anonymous says:
    8 years ago

    I’m sorry FPA but I can read FASEA documents. What is the point of belonging to the FPA when it’s clear they feel there role is to only provide an interpretation of the outcome?

    Reply
  2. james walker-powell says:
    8 years ago

    I listened until we got to the part of ” professional partner programme ” To me if your a subsidiary your part of the larger company . In fact that’s how it also works in corp law. So trying to say we work with dealer groups not co like say Comm bank is a sad sad manner of protecting self interest SHame !

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    • Jason McFadden says:
      8 years ago

      100% Agree. A payment from Commonwealth Financial Planning is the same as Commonwealth Bank. To bundle this up as members fee on their annual report is wrong. Living in the 80’s FPA.

      Reply
  3. Anon says:
    8 years ago

    All financial planning industry bodies are conflicted. Remove the ability for advisers to collect any fees through any product and watch the conflicts disappear. Just imagine if advisers had to collect their fees like other professional advisers!

    Reply
  4. Anonymous says:
    8 years ago

    While I still have major concerns about FASEA and the FPA, this interview has shed far more light than anything else so far. Listen in if you can spare the 29 mins.

    Leaving aside FASEA issues for a moment, this is the best media performance I have ever heard from an FPA representative. Neil Kendall is a positive, assertive, straight talker. Let’s hope the FPA use him more widely in the media to discuss other issues moving forward.

    Reply
    • Anonymous says:
      8 years ago

      He is not a straight talker

      Reply
  5. Anonymous says:
    8 years ago

    Reputations are burning at the FPA and FASEA. Many members are disenchanted and are questioning the value of membership. Questions need to be raised whether the damage to industry relationships is now terminal- further changes need to occur in the leadership to ensure a balanced discussion to end up with a workable grandfather arrangement for existing planners.

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    • Anonymous says:
      8 years ago

      i propose merger of the FPA with the other body, CPA Australia that would be a treat.

      Reply
  6. Anonymous says:
    8 years ago

    Why won’t FASEA put something in writing about the 10 year rule? Why doesn’t the FPA publish the transcripts of the conversation with Dr Dean Sanders?

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  7. Not my professional body says:
    8 years ago

    That is an hour of my life I won’t get back. Significant attempt at re-writing history. That recording, and the arguments posed, won’t age well.

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