AccountantsIQ has stuck up for accountants giving financial advice against the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority, urging that the education standards impos...
The Association of Financial Advisers has pointed to the likelihood of further rounds of Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority consultation around education pa...
As financial planners gear up for new education requirements, Anastasia Santoreneos writes that it’s time to look at other industries employing similar licensing standard...
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority (FASEA) has announced that Stephen Glenfield, who has over 30 years’ experience in the financial services regulation ...
The Association of Financial Advisers is arguing that advisers who will be aged 55 or over as at 31 December, 2023 should not have to climb the same education mountain as...
The buyer’s market for financial planning practices and premium valuations of 3.2 to 3.5 times may be coming to an end with a new analysis suggesting ageing, trail-relian...
Financial advisers need to engage more with consultation on the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s consultation on a new code of ethics before it is too l...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled that planner bodies will have to put aside their fear of losing members if they are to succeed as co-re...
Over 17,000 advisers may need to complete further education under the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s reforms, including 1,000 who are close to retirem...
The Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull has admitted to making a political mistake in not acting sooner to call the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superann...
If financial advisers fully owned the relationship with their clients, many of the issues uncovered by the Royal Commission may have been avoided....
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has found that approximately 60 per cent of its members are degree-qualified, compared to 35 per cent industry-wide....
As the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority considers a new ethics standard for all advisers, the accounting sector reflects on industry change following the ...
The Financial Planning Association has announced Sharon Taylor’s appointment as chair of the Financial Planning Education Council, following Mark Brimble’s departure in F...
The Financial Planning Association has unsurprisingly had an overwhelming response to its questionnaire on adviser education reforms, with 1,700 members airing their worr...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...