Adrian Raftery

Financial planning

AMP faces multiple challenges from BOLR changes

AMP Limited is facing multiple challenges as a result of its changes to its buyer of last resort arrangements and its signalling of a significant reduction in aligned adv...

Financial planning

Academic calls for heads to roll at FASEA

Financial planning academic and “whistle-blower”, Adrian Raftery, has called for the resignation of four Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority directors and th...

Features

Teaching yourself about education

As financial planners and advisers prepare for FASEA’s requirements, as well as sitting the first exam, more education providers have released details of what they’re off...

Policy & Regulation

Questions raised over FASEA approval process

With FASEA having released a list of approved courses overnight, there have been questions over the appropriateness of some of the selections....

Policy & Regulation

Deakin adds support for financial planner training

Deakin University Business School is supporting financial planners to prepare for the FASEA inaugural national adviser exams this month, as well as adding Deen Sanders to...

Financial planning

Has FASEA omitted a key piece of info?

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has seemingly omitted the ‘Graduate Outcome Statements’, referred to in FPS002 Program and Provider Accreditation Pol...

Financial planning

FASEA code more legal than ethical

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s new Code of Ethics has the industry surprised with the duplication of legal obligations....

Financial planning

FASEA’s CPD expectations ‘totally unreasonable’

Deakin University Professor, Adrian Raftery, has slammed the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority for its unreasonable expectations in terms of continuing pro...

Financial planning

Advisers still hindered by FASEA’s ‘arbitrary dates’

While the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s updated standards show some positives, advisers are still going to be impacted by the regulator’s arbitrary d...

Policy & Regulation

Academic questions FASEA filings

Deakin Business School associate professor, Adrian Raftery has raised questions about whether the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has met its financial f...