EXAMS

Financial planning

The Advisers Association has urged for a higher education bar to be set for non-relevant financial advice providers....

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Financial planning

This is the lowest pass rate, beating the previous record of 67%, with only two exam sittings remaining this year....

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Financial planning

Financial advice regulatory and legal requirements, and applied ethical and professional reasoning and communication, were the two biggest problem areas in the October ex...

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Financial planning

It will transition to computer-based testing for all three levels of the CFA program in 2021 with the transition already beginning for Level 1....

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Policy & Regulation

Kaplan has seen many licensees and their financial advisers take a proactive approach and are already on the front foot with their exam preparation....

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Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has made some minor concessions around the financial adviser exam....

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has acknowledged that the financial adviser exam will likely act as a culling mechanism for inadequate advisers but has urged that t...

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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...

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