The Financial Planning Association, Association of Financial Advisers and other professional association backers will today lodge a formal application with ASIC to operat...

The standards authority has approved three bridging course and education credits for CIMA and CFA coursework....

Mike Taylor writes that scores of financial advisers will be left looking for new licensees in the wake of this month’s announcements by the Commonwealth Bank and AMP Li...

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has released its June exam results, from the inaugural financial advisers exam, with 90 per cent of candidates passin...

Will changes to default superannuation arrangements combine with changes to income streams serve to squeeze many advisers out of the superannuation market?...

The SMSF Association is promoting its SMSF Specialist Advisor designation course as being both cheaper and more effective than pursuing Financial Adviser Standards and Et...

FASEA has confirmed 10 regional locations would be holding sittings for the December exam, expanding access for some regional centres....

The pressure on the families of financial planners should not be dismissed as advisers grapple with stress and depression caused by the changes in the advice sector....

US media reports have questioned the conduct of the board which runs the Certified Financial Planner designation over its alleged failure to detail the criminal and regul...

Intense lobbying by financial advisers has made Federal parliamentarians aware of their problems with the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime but unce...

Life insurance specialist TAL has added additional Risk Academy Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority (FASEA) Exam Masterclasses, to keep up with adviser deman...

Paragem managing director, Nathan Jacobsen argues that while the march towards financial planning professionalism is welcome and necessary, it would be folly to overlook ...

As advisers battle with the effects of the Banking Royal Commission, education reforms, the banks exiting wealth, and changes to business structures, Hannah Wootton finds...

Major accounting body, Chartered Accountants ANZ has argued for accountants to be given the right to give ‘incidental advice’ under a carve-out from the financial advice ...