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Financial planning

There is an urgent need to end the regulatory overlap between the Tax Practitioners Board and the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority, according to the Finan...

Policy & Regulation

FASEA chief executive Stephen Glenfield has defended the 90% pass rate of the FASEA exam, saying the authority’s exam was purely for adviser competency....

Financial planning

A panel of senior planning group executives have told a Money Management conference that advisers should lower their expectations with respect to the value of their advic...

Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority chief executive has reminded advisers that the FASEA exam extension is not a done deal until it passes the Parliament...

Policy & Regulation

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority needs to take greater responsibility for implementation of the Code of Ethics....

Financial planning

Advisers have been urged to be mindful of the Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg’s move to impose 12-monthly opt-in and fee disclosure arrangements....

Financial planning

Financial advisers have been provided with an advocacy pack aimed at convincing politicians to slow-down the rate of change being imposed on the financial planning indust...

Features

Advisers might not be looking forward to fulfilling the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority education requirements, but just like financial planning itself, ...

Policy & Regulation

Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand has asked for clarification over what financial planning studies will count for further credits from the Financial Adviser...

Financial planning

The united approach adopted by the Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers has been credited with achieving the extension of the Financia...

Financial planning

The Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Services Technology, Senator Jane Hume has again stopped short of giving any undertaking on ex...

Financial planning

The chief executive of CountPlus and former Financial Planning Association chair, Matthew Rowe, has resigned from the board of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics ...

Financial planning

The Government has indicated it is sympathetic to financial advisers trying to do the right thing around the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority requirements...

Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has extended recognition of the course value of the Financial Planning Association’s Certified Financial Planner desi...

Editorial

The financial advice industry is facing yet another layer of bureaucracy as a result of the Government’s so-called Royal Commission Implementation Roadmap but the ultimat...

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