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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has urged that planners doing their Professional Year should be allowed to generate revenue for the planning practices overseeing th...

Financial planning

Arnie Selvarajah, CEO, Bell Direct, tells the Future of Wealth Management conference that the next generation of advisers must become mentors to clients. ...

Tools & guides

For carers looking to fund their children’s education, there are a wealth of options that advisers can guide them too, David Barrett writes....

Financial planning

Education is needed to boost the understanding of financial and insurance products and encourage responsible financial behaviour, according to the Global Federation of In...

Financial planning

Mentor Education’s founder, Mark Sinclair has said that older advisers who feel pushed out of the industry by FASEA’s reforms could instead find roles as mentors, coaches...

Financial planning

The Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals (AIOFP) has called on advisers to petition the Government regarding FASEA’s reforms by utilising support fr...

Financial planning

An academic has questioned the robustness of some bank advice remediation programs claiming some work has been carried out by contractors with little more than ‘hot house...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned that the financial adviser exam represents a ‘cull’ mechanism as it is currently proposed....

Financial planning

Deakin University has told the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority it believes financial planners want the exam process to cover areas that are relevant to w...

Financial planning

The new standards to be put in place under the FASEA regime present challenges for those who predominantly provide SMSF advice under a limited licence, the online advice ...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has issued an online questionnaire for members to complete on the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s Financial Adviser ...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has pointed to the likelihood of further rounds of Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority consultation around education pa...

Features

As financial planners gear up for new education requirements, Anastasia Santoreneos writes that it’s time to look at other industries employing similar licensing standard...

Financial planning

A record number of candidates have registered for Level I, II, and III CFA exams on the program’s 55th anniversary, according to CFA Institute. ...

Features

The Federal Government has decided a degree-level equivalency will be required for new advisers from January 2019 under the FASEA regime. Nick Grove asks whether this wil...

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