DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Financial planning

The Aged Care Steps Accredited Aged Care Professional program will be available as an elective unit which can lead to eligibility for the Financial Planning Association o...

Financial planning

Financial planning students are frustrated the industry does not have graduate or internship programs to pave careers in advice....

Financial planning

Over 80% of financial advisers say they find regulatory and compliance demands to be highly or very highly stressful, according to a report. ...

People & Products

The collaboration aims to better understand and improve the current state of mental health of financial advisers in Australia....

People & Products

Over 5,000 accountants will receive training in providing mental health first aid to assist clients across Australia by 2022. ...

Funds management

Asset held in impact investment products have tripled over the past two years to $19.9 billion, according to the Responsible Investment Association Australasia. ...

Features

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

Financial planning

Deakin University has launched a new online interactive tool aimed at helping financial advisers determine the education pathway required to help them meet the new indust...

Financial planning

Financial planning academic and “whistle-blower”, Adrian Raftery, has called for the resignation of four Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority directors and th...

Features

As financial planners and advisers prepare for FASEA’s requirements, as well as sitting the first exam, more education providers have released details of what they’re off...

Policy & Regulation

With FASEA having released a list of approved courses overnight, there have been questions over the appropriateness of some of the selections....

Financial planning

Deakin University has become the first university in the world to offer a financial planning course with professional accreditation for estate planning....

Financial planning

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

Deakin University Professor, Adrian Raftery, has slammed the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority for its unreasonable expectations in terms of continuing pro...

Financial planning

While the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s updated standards show some positives, advisers are still going to be impacted by the regulator’s arbitrary d...

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