Adviser numbers were already running close to 15% below the industry’s long-term average even before the end of 2020 and before the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics...

The number of actual advisers has dropped through the 21,000 barrier this week, with the loss of a further 31 advisers, according to HFS Consulting’s data....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is going to have to explain why it chose to describe a man convicted of dishonest conduct as a ‘financial adviser’ wh...

The amount of new professional year entrants is less than a tenth of the total amount of advisers that have exited the industry this year. ...

Almost 80% of financial planners, who are registered under the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Financial Adviser Register, are men. ...

The two largest financial planning organisations have increasingly been singing from the same hymn book in delivering their policy messages to Canberra but they are still...

The latest ASIC Financial Adviser Register has highlighted further losses of advisers, with current adviser roles dropping to below 21,500 while the numbers of planners w...

The passage of an extension of time for financial advisers to comply with FASEA education requirements in the Senate was a step towards a more professional advice system,...

FASEA has confirmed the dates for the remaining 2020 exam sittings which will be held in August, October and November. ...

The February sitting of the FASEA exam saw a pass rate of 82% and the June exam will not have a face-to-face sitting....

Experience in the United Kingdom suggests it may be a lot more expensive to recruit and retain senior executives under the Government’s proposed new Financial Accountabil...

Attracting talent to superannuation funds could become problematic under the Government’s move to extend the Bank Executive Accountability Regime to the superannuation in...

Superannuation fund executives and trustees will find themselves the subject to the equivalent of the Bank Executive Accountability Regime under proposals outlined by the...