EDUCATION

Financial planning

The JAWG has announced it is in talks with Treasury around five “core principles” to strengthen the education standards for new entrants to the financial advice space....

Financial planning

Iress has announced a partnership with financial services career provider Striver to encourage new graduates and career changers into the financial advice industry....

Financial planning

Colonial First State has launched CFS 10x, a program designed to help financial advice practices grow their business....

Financial planning

The financial advice profession should be embracing career changers and mature students, according to two commentators, as well as targeting those new graduates....

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....

 

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Graeme

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Ross Smith

The term "The democratisation of private assets continues to gain steam" is marketing misleading. There is no democracy...

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Greg

I have passed this exam, and it is not easy or fair exam. It's no wonder that advisers are falsifying their results. ...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

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A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

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The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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