
The Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) has announced the four winners of the 2017 FPEC Academic Research Grants that include academics from Deakin University, Griffith University and RMIT.
The FPEC Academic Research Grants are jointly sponsored by the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA), AMP and NAB, and recognise those that have demonstrated a commitment to encouraging the development of financial planning as an academic discipline in its own right.
The 2017 grant recipients are:
This year has seen the funding pool grow from $10,000 to $30,000. This funding supports research that helps to further grow relationships between the tertiary sector and the financial planning profession.
Dante De Gori CFP®, FPA CEO, said: “Academic research is valuable to the profession and many of the projects have resulted in papers being published in the Financial Planning Research Journal. We congratulate the winners on their outstanding work.”
For more detail on the FPEC Research Grants Scheme, please refer to:
https://fpa.com.au/education/financial-planning-education-council-fpec/