EDUCATION

Financial planning

FASEA will provide guidance to planners facing both the exam and Code of Ethics but hasn’t confirmed how long before the professionalisation regime kicks in in full force...

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People & Products

In an increasingly busy marketplace, AccountantsIQ and I Love SMSF have partnered to launch a program aimed at easing the burden of the FASEA mentoring and exam requireme...

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People & Products

RegTech start-up, Think Caddie, has announced its continual professional development platform could help advisers and Australian financial services licensees comply with ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has released the legislative instrument underpinning the financial planner Code of Ethics....

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Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has made some minor concessions around the financial adviser exam....

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Financial planning

The planning industry faces an obstacle in ensuring consumers are aware that advisers are improving their education standards, if it wants to see the possible improvement...

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Financial planning

Financial adviser respondents to an ongoing Money Management survey say that while they back most of the objectives of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authorit...

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Financial planning

A Hobart financial planner who was not sufficiently trained, despite holding a Diploma of Financial Planning from Kaplan, or competent to provide financial services has b...

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Financial planning

Money Management’s survey of adviser intentions on the new Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime has revealed Kaplan rather than the universities as the...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has acknowledged that the financial adviser exam will likely act as a culling mechanism for inadequate advisers but has urged that t...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers worried about the incoming education reforms could restructure their business to become money coaches. ...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has accused the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority of being ‘absolutely unreasonable” with respect to its start-date f...

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Financial planning

New research has suggested that when it comes to keeping clients happy, adviser soft skills are every bit as important as possession of a university degree for financial ...

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Financial planning

AMP’s chief executive, Michael Wilkins, has told the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry that education has be...

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Financial planning

The approach adopted by the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority may have served to undermine accountants utilising the limited licensing regime, according to...

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