EDUCATION

Financial planning

Minister for financial services Stephen Jones believes super funds can be the source for boosting financial adviser numbers and hints at a new educational pathway for sup...

Expert Analysis

Many advice practices believe that taking on Professional Year advisers will drain resources. But forward-thinking firms are putting them at the heart of their strategy t...

Financial planning

Kaplan has unveiled new specialisations and elective subjects as advisers seek increasingly technical content to improve their practice....

Financial planning

Managed accounts can be a benefit for advisers in their professional year, according to experts, as they pose a lower compliance burden and improved risk management. ...

Financial planning

A clause in the experience pathway legislation passed yesterday could improve the prescriptive rules imposed on new entrants and translate to more flexibility in the cour...

People & Products

Clime Investment Management and TIP Group have partnered to launch My Financial Fitness, a new online financial education program aimed to strengthen Australians’ self-ma...

Financial planning

Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, believes the industry can return to 30,000 advisers but new pathways are needed as it is unrealistic to expect people to w...

Financial planning

The experience pathway could mean tens of millions of dollars in losses for education providers, according to government forecasts....

People & Products

HUB24 is expanding its relationship with HR technology platform Striver to extend its range of adviser education resources....

Financial planning

Almost 20 students have filed a class action against James Cook University after discovering their financial planning degrees had not received accreditation, leaving them...

Financial planning

Long delays encountered by candidates sitting the financial adviser exam online are the result of “users’ system issues”, according to ASIC....

Financial planning

New data from Kaplan Professional has found digital modules around ethics and professionalism have been among the most-popular offerings for advisers. ...

Editorial

A lack of participation by Australia’s largest universities is complicating the pathway for new entrants, according to leading financial advice organisations. ...

Financial planning

Over a third of Australians say they have minimal confidence in their retirement preparations and 64% say they would like to receive advice from their superannuation fund...

Financial planning

Enrolments for the first financial adviser exam of 2023 open today with licensees applying for a new adviser urged to act quickly....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

5 months 1 week ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months 1 week ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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