Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority

FINANCIAL ADVISER STANDARDS AND ETHICS AUTHORITY

Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority is now on formal notice to answer Senate Estimates questions about the content of Australian Securities and Investmen...

Financial planning

FASEA board accused of shunning industry

Questions are being asked about why the board of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has avoided direct engagement with key industry groups for more than...

Financial planning

Fix the code or delay implementation says AFA

With financial planning groups meeting with the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority today, the Association of Financial Advisers has sent a message that issu...

Financial planning

FPA attacks FASEA for failing to deliver on mandate

The Financial Planning Association has pulled off the gloves to accuse the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority of having failed to deliver on its mandate....

Financial planning

FASEA bypassed consultation on code guidance

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority bypassed adviser group consultation before releasing its code of ethics guidance and is now offering a November consu...

Financial planning

AFA accuses FASEA of going beyond its remit on code

The Association of Financial Advisers has accused the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics of Authority of using its code of ethics approach to ‘create its own laws, wa...

Financial planning

Advisers should assume worst-case scenario on FASEA timeframes

Advisers would do well to assume worst-case scenario outcomes when it comes to extending the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority deadlines, according to weal...

Financial planning

Labor Parliamentarians sympathetic on FASEA extension

Lobbying by financial advisers has revealed that at least some Federal Labor parliamentarians are sympathetic to allowing passage of the legislation necessary to deliver ...

Life/Risk

Synchron confirms 20% adviser exits

Risk-focused financial planning group, Synchron has confirmed the turnover of around 20% of its advisers in the face of the new Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Aut...

Financial planning

NAB names WSU as preferred education provider

National Australia Bank has selected Western Sydney University as its preferred provider for two of their FASEA-approved courses....

Financial planning

End TPB/FASEA duplication says FSC

There is an urgent need to end the regulatory overlap between the Tax Practitioners Board and the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority, according to the Finan...

Policy & Regulation

FASEA CEO defends exam pass rate

FASEA chief executive Stephen Glenfield has defended the 90% pass rate of the FASEA exam, saying the authority’s exam was purely for adviser competency....

Financial planning

12-monthly opt-in back on the legislative agenda

Advisers have been urged to be mindful of the Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg’s move to impose 12-monthly opt-in and fee disclosure arrangements....

Financial planning

AFA advocacy pack urges a slow-down

Financial advisers have been provided with an advocacy pack aimed at convincing politicians to slow-down the rate of change being imposed on the financial planning indust...

Features

Guiding advisers through their education options

Advisers might not be looking forward to fulfilling the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority education requirements, but just like financial planning itself, ...