PROFESSIONAL CHALLENGE.

The article focuses on the challenge facing financial planners in Australia to gain professional status. Majority of the members of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) have voted in favor of a three-year plan to get the financial planning industry elevated to professional status. FPA Chief Executive Mark Rantall stresses the importance for financial planning to complete its evolution into being a trusted profession. Under its three-year plan, individual planning practitioners and those without corporate memberships will be represented by the FPA.