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Education centre used by financial planners as evidence of continuing professional development. Complete the online quizzes that accompany each article and immediately begin earning CPD points.

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FASEA CPD Areas: Client care and practice
ASIC RG 146 Knowledge Requirements: Financial Planning
The Government’s Quality of Advice Review is one of the most important financial services policy reviews to be held in recent years. It will consider improvements to the regulatory framework to reduce...
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Tools & guides
FASEA CPD Areas: Technical competence
ASIC RG 146 Knowledge Requirements: Superannuation
The recent changes introduced to superannuation contribution rules provide increased opportunities for cash out recontribution strategies. While the strategy aims to increase the tax-free portion of s...
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Tools & guides
FASEA CPD Areas: Technical Competence
ASIC RG 146 Knowledge Requirements: Superannuation
A person’s superannuation savings are accumulated at the individual level. While you can own an investment property, shares, or have a joint bank account with another person, your superannuation is un...
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Tools & guides
FASEA CPD Areas: Technical Competence
ASIC RG 146 Knowledge Requirements: Managed Investments
The relationship of earnings acceleration to outperformance has had only limited empirical studies. In fact, most studies focus on the US market, and we believe our research is one of the first to exa...
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Tools & guides
FASEA CPD Areas: Technical Competence
ASIC RG 146 Knowledge Requirements: Financial Planning
One of the fundamental requirements for applying capital gains tax (CGT) concessions is the asset being sold must be ‘active’ and this is not always as easy or straight-forward as it sounds. The ba...
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Tools & guides
FASEA CPD Areas: Technical Competence
ASIC RG 146 Knowledge Requirements: Life Insurance
When providing insurance advice to clients, a common strategy considered by financial planners is holding insurance in superannuation where possible. There may be various benefits in holding insurance...
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