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The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has signaled to a Parliamentary Committee that further adjustments to the adviser code of ethics was possible beyond ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has denied its chief executive, Stephen Glenfield, deliberately misled a Parliamentary Committee about the public ava...

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Financial planning

Two degrees have been approved by the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority to meet its education standards. ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority November adviser exam has seen more than three-quarters of advisers pass. ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed that its industry funding model is helping underwrite the cost of consumer submissions such as those us...

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Policy & Regulation

Both the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Treasury will need adequate funding and resourcing to handle their new regulatory roles following the cl...

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Financial planning

Although the removal of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority is a huge victory for many in the industry who spent the last few years fighting for reform, ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority may be gone but its exam timetable will continue and so will the requirement for financial advisers to become degree ...

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Financial planning

Mike Taylor writes that few people genuinely argued with the objectives set out for the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority but they did argue with the autho...

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Financial planning

The Government has scrapped the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority with its standards making functions rolled into Treasury while remaining elements are han...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association is pointing to the proposed Single Disciplinary Body as the answer for delivering greater regulatory simplicity for financial tax advis...

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Financial planning

Financial advice regulatory and legal requirements, and applied ethical and professional reasoning and communication, were the two biggest problem areas in the October ex...

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Financial planning

Almost 50% of advisers on ASIC’s Financial Adviser Register have passed the exam, with the average pass rate now at 83%. ...

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Policy & Regulation

Members of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Consumer Advisory Panel played a role in developing a key consumer Future of Financial Advice submission...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed that it helped fund a consumer submission by two Griffith University academics to the Financial Adviser...

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