EDUCATION

Financial planning

Financial planners with higher educational qualifications were in demand for remediation projects, leading to a candidate shortage, the Hays quarterly report found....

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Financial planning

Education and training standards around aged care advice should be self-regulated by the industry instead of imposing a legal legislative instrument, according to Aged Ca...

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Features

Oksana Patron reports that Money Management’s 2017 Salary Survey has revealed an industry which is not unduly highly paid but within which a majority of people are more t...

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Features

Industry engaged education is necessary for producing investment leaders of the future, Dan Daugaard writes....

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Superannuation

Education for trustees and advisers along with policy tweaking should be used to prevent elder financial abuse, the SMSF Association believes....

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Financial planning

The major banks have confirmed they are still paying millions of dollars a year to external financial planning dealer groups to provide support and education around their...

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Financial planning

AMP has restructured its advice business, including the integration of AMP Financial Planning, AMP Advice, AMP Horizons, and AMP Direct, and has announced leadership chan...

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Editorial

With the passage of the Professional Standards legislation, the major employers have already set about de-risking their planning exposures, Mike Taylor writes....

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Features

Jassmyn Goh finds out what the industry’s concerns and expectations are relating to the new professional standards regime....

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Features

When the Government initially announced the professional standards bill, one of the biggest concerns was whether there would be an early retirement exodus of late-career ...

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Financial planning

The better dealer groups are already assisting their advisers in their qualifications following the new professional standards legislation announcement, according to Ment...

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Financial planning

A growing number of financial advisers were committing to longer-term education as seen by the increased uptake of postgraduate programs, according to Kaplan Professional...

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Features

Malavika Santhebennur writes that many policy issues that beleaguered the financial services sector in 2015 remained in 2016, and would continue into 2017....

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Financial planning

Industry associations have welcomed the Federal Government’s introduction of the bill to mandate higher education and professional standards for advisers....

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Financial planning

The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer, has introduced the bill to mandate professional standards and education into Parliament today....

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