FASEA

Financial planning

Are planners staying or going in the face of the new Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime? Please let Money Management know....

Policy & Regulation

O’Dwyer to leave politics

The minister under whose watch much of the current workload of the financial services industry was generated, Kelly O’Dwyer, has announced her exit from politics at the n...

Financial planning

Has FASEA omitted a key piece of info?

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has seemingly omitted the ‘Graduate Outcome Statements’, referred to in FPS002 Program and Provider Accreditation Pol...

Financial planning

FASEA imposes gap assessment for foreign qualifications

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has announced the imposition of a ‘gap assessment’ for people with foreign qualifications who want to practice as fin...

Financial planning

FPA wants formal FASEA recognition of CFP

The Financial Planning Association has sought formal Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority recognition of the Certified Financial Planner designation to lock i...

Financial planning

Degree qualified advisers still alarmed by FASEA pathways

A number of financial advisers have reacted angrily to the latest Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority education pathways policy claiming it allows insufficie...

Financial planning

FASEA issues final education pathways policy

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has issued its final education policy outline with the promise of regular updates and confirmation of refinements....

Financial planning

AFA will press for more FASEA amendments

After meeting with the Assistant Treasurer, Stuart Robert, the Association of Financial Advisers has vowed to continue pressing for more changes to the Financial Adviser ...

Financial planning

FASEA exam acknowledged as a culling mechanism

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...

Financial planning

Minister to be told of FASEA failings

The Association of Financial Advisers has vowed to inform the Assistant Treasurer, Stuart Robert, of the lack of progress achieved by the Financial Adviser Standards and ...

Policy & Regulation

Has FASEA devalued prior experience?

The Association of Financial Advisers has expressed concern at the impact of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority denying higher education providers the r...

Policy & Regulation

Was FASEA’s adviser code written by non-advisers?

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned that not enough financial advice experience and understanding has been applied to developing the Financial Adviser Standa...

Financial planning

FASEA names approved relevant providers’ qualifications

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has released the legislative instrument for relevant providers degrees, qualifications and courses....