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Financial planning
The April exam will continue as planned, but FASEA will advise candidates if a decision by ACER or the government means they have to change....
Features
The industry has now had four rounds of FASEA exams, but Chris Dastoor writes advisers – particularly those who have passed – are still as confused and unhappy about the ...
Features
Despite three decades of experience in the industry and a Masters degree approved by the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority (FASEA), Leigh Anoos couldn’t pa...
Financial planning
A Queensland academic has raised serious doubts about the legal underpinnings of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority code of ethics and, by implication, ...
Financial planning
Money Management readers have expressed their dissatisfaction with the FASEA exam, saying the questions are ambiguous and the exam conditions unfair....
Financial planning
Advisers continue to perform well in the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exam, with 86% passing the December sitting....
Financial planning
Eligible financial advisers will not have to travel to sit the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exam in February....
Financial planning
The new dates will be 13-18 February and 2-7 April in over a couple dozen different locations around the country....
Policy & Regulation
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has released its June exam results, from the inaugural financial advisers exam, with 90 per cent of candidates passin...
Policy & Regulation
FASEA has confirmed 10 regional locations would be holding sittings for the December exam, expanding access for some regional centres....
Financial planning
Financial planners face the need to convince the Senate cross-bench of the virtue of allowing more time for them to sit the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authori...
Financial planning
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s business plan has revealed the financial adviser exam will cost millions and be the authority’s single biggest expe...
Financial planning
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has confirmed that the final exam introduced as part of its education reforms would be one exam for all advisers rega...
Financial planning
Experts say the continuing uncertainty and fear surrounding the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s future requirements has adviser sentiment unsurprisingl...
Financial planning
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has released proposed guidance on the compulsory Financial Adviser Examination, amid cries from the industry that mor...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...