A key industry body has launched an online tool to help planners select which fintech solutions will best grow their practices’ profitability and efficiency....
The Financial Planning Association has signalled that at least one education provider it plans to be in bed with for the rollout of the FASEA reforms is the privately-run...
In a sea of reform recommendations for the banking and financial services sector, a looming election may see politicians skim across the surface on matters that deserve a...
2018 was another year of growth for planners holding the Certified Financial Planner designation with a 3.3 per cent global rise in the number, according to the Financial...
Industry superannuation funds have welcomed the Royal Commission’s final report, but financial planning groups are concerned about the outcome for their members....
The planning industry faces an obstacle in ensuring consumers are aware that advisers are improving their education standards, if it wants to see the possible improvement...
The Financial Planning Association has sought formal Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority recognition of the Certified Financial Planner designation to lock i...
A number of financial advisers have reacted angrily to the latest Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority education pathways policy claiming it allows insufficie...
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has been urged to give professional associations leadership on continuing professional development with the SMSF Asso...
Deakin University Professor, Adrian Raftery, has slammed the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority for its unreasonable expectations in terms of continuing pro...
With the Royal Commission questioning the role of Approved Product Lists a larger question has arisen about whether self-licensed advisers are achieving better outcomes t...
The Financial Planning Association has sought to calm advisers nervous about FASEA’s reforms at its Professionals Congress this morning, promising that “we will help you ...
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has confirmed that the final exam introduced as part of its education reforms would be one exam for all advisers rega...
Planners should expect FASEA’s final standards by Christmas, with the Authority’s chief executive, Stephen Glenfield, today saying that his intention was to have them fin...
The chief executive of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority, Stephen Glenfield, today sought to reassure planners that the Authority had taken account of ...
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,...