FASEA

Financial planning

FPA, AFA and licensees to front key parliamentary committee

The same Parliamentary Committee which has been applying close scrutiny to industry superannuation funds and their financial planning expenditures is about to turn its at...

Financial planning

Another question-mark over FASEA exam extension

The prospect of yet another Parliamentary argument around legislative amendments has again thrown passage of the Government’s extension of the Financial Adviser Standards...

Financial planning

RG146 CPD no longer required

Financial advisers will no longer have to record continuing professional development for RG146 as it has effectively been replaced by the Financial Adviser Standards and ...

Financial planning

FASEA approves historical course

The University of Adelaide’s historical Graduate Diploma in Global Wealth Management has been approved by the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority....

Financial planning

FPA's strategy depends on who has control of an adviser register

The Financial Planning Association has signalled it wants the next best thing to the commercial benefits which would have flowed from being a code-monitoring body, with i...

Financial planning

Adviser group calls for FASEA exam boycott

Adviser group, the United Financial Advisers Association has called for the boycotting of the FASEA exam until a better alternative if found. ...

Financial planning

FASEA still under pressure on Standard 3

Yet another organisation has joined the chorus of voices calling for change to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority code of ethics, particularly Standard ...

Financial planning

Merger conjecture back on around FPA and AFA

The Financial Planning Association’s announcement of job losses and an organisational restructure driven by declining adviser numbers has reawakened calls for a merger be...

Financial planning

Financial planning organisations – what should happen?

The Financial Planning Association’s restructure has reawakened talk of a merger with the Association of Financial Advisers. What do you believe should happen?...

Financial planning

Aged care advice included in FASEA standards

Advisers avoiding aged care advice risk failing to comply with Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority code of ethics and will not meet best interest duty, accor...

Financial planning

Media wrong to tar advisers with the one brush

A financial planning and accounting company head has taken the media to task for seeking to tar financial advisers with the one brush when he says the vast majority are t...

Policy & Regulation

Hume calls for FASEA extension to return to business

Senator Jane Hume has called on the Labor Party to enable the FASEA extension to return to business after a ruling yesterday on listed investment companies. ...

Policy & Regulation

FPA welcomes LIC stamping fee extension

It has now called on the Senate to pass the FASEA extension bill, now that the Government has removed the exemption that allows stamping fees on listed investment entitie...

Policy & Regulation

LIC stamping fee exemption to be extended

The ban on conflicted remuneration to listed investment companies will be extended following a consultation by the Treasury, removing an impediment to the FASEA exam exte...

Financial planning

FASEA adviser code down to ‘collective skills of management and directors’

Financial advisers should know that the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority code of ethics was ultimately the work of the collective skills of FASEA manageme...