Both the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority face having to explain the circumstances behind a key s...

Amid the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Australian financial advisers were also witness to significant changes, writes Mike Taylor, not least with respect to AMP an...

The widespread general criticism of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s latest efforts around code of conduct guidance should be the catalyst for the G...

The amount of new professional year entrants is less than a tenth of the total amount of advisers that have exited the industry this year. ...

A link has been uncovered between the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Consumer Advisory Panel and a key submission regarded as highly supportive of the...

A designation of work by two Griffith University academics as “consultancy/commercial research” has raised questions about the status of a 2018 submission to the Financia...

Newly public submissions to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority pointed to consumer groups having been insistent on key changes to the Code of Ethics whi...

A wide cross-section of the financial advice industry has delivered a harsh message to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority about the continuing shortcomi...

The code of ethics would be improved if many of the standards were amended to reflect the intent of the code, the SMSF Association believes. ...

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has been accused of simply complicating matters rather than bringing greater clarity to its financial adviser code of...

Clarity around Standard 3 of the financial adviser code of ethics is vital and the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority needs to stop playing ‘semantic games’...

The submission, that has not been made live by the authority, matches material obtained by Money Management earlier this year that sought to understand the meaning of “in...

Industry submissions regarded as fundamental to the final shape of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority code of ethics have been made visible on the FASEA...

The two largest financial planning organisations have increasingly been singing from the same hymn book in delivering their policy messages to Canberra but they are still...