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Superannuation
Calls by the Parliamentary Joint Committee for financial advisers to undertake specialist self-managed super fund training if they advise in this area has received a tick...
Financial planning
The FPA’s 11th hour FPEC “gift” rewarded in Parliamentry Committee’s final report....
Financial planning
ASIC has reiterated its calls for a national exam stating that recent changes around education still did not guarantee a consistent national standard for advice....
Financial planning
Professionalism in the financial services industry remains some distance off and may need Government intervention....
Financial planning
Politicians tasked with raising education and professional standards in the financial advice sector are being urged by the FPA. to “look beyond the noise” of vested inter...
Financial planning
Adviser competency and professional standards would be boosted by the formation of a new adviser-funded body that sets standards for different advice segments, the Financ...
Financial planning
MFAA claims mortgage brokers have not been through any major scandals as a result of lower levels of risk and the application of higher professional standards...
Editorial
With a third of FOS determinations going unpaid the efficacy of Professional Indemnity insurance as a compensation mechanism is under question and, as Mike Taylor reports...
Financial planning
A new statutory body should control education and professional standards according to FSC, however it may sideline professional associations seeking self-regulation....
Superannuation
Professional associations should take over setting CPD standards if adviser standards are to improve, SPAA argued. ...
Financial planning
The corporate regulator states a co-regulatory model could work for financial advisers but says it is cost-effective and ethically practical to only work with one profess...
Financial planning
ASIC acknowledges that vertical integration gives rise to conflicts of interest but acknoweldges that scale has benefits....
Financial planning
ASIC tells of man banned as a planner but still operating as an accountant and providing tax advice....
Financial planning
Accountants are more qualified to give financial advice than planners, largely due to their working knowledge of SMSFs, a small business owner believes....
Financial planning
Ethics classes for financial planners should be fundamental to the new education standards, with self-regulation a near impossible benchmark for the profession, two indus...
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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,...