FASEA

Policy & Regulation

FASEA has approved the Kaplan version of two AFA Professional Designations — the Fellow Chartered Financial Practitioner and Chartered Life Practitioner....

Financial planning

Deakin University has launched a new online interactive tool aimed at helping financial advisers determine the education pathway required to help them meet the new indust...

Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has released an online tool to give advisers feedback on their required education pathway. ...

Financial planning

A major accountancy body has warned the Australian Securities and Investments Commission that rising levies may promote an exodus by accountants working under limited pla...

Financial planning

IOOF’s new-confirmed chief executive, Renato Mota has confirmed the inevitability of change to the company’s commercial models around advice resulting from the removal of...

Financial planning

The first cohort of advisers to have sat the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exam appear to have assessed it as challenging but fair....

Financial planning

Financial planning academic and “whistle-blower”, Adrian Raftery, has called for the resignation of four Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority directors and th...

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 Planning Association has backed its push for co-regulation and enforceable codes with a call for confidential information sharing with the Australian Securi...

Financial planning

The industry’s two main industry bodies have continued their unified response navigating the difficult landscape advisers are facing, yesterday meeting together with Sena...

Features

Hannah Wootton talks to a young industry leader and soon-to-be financial planning graduate, Azaria Bell, to find out what advisers can gain from going back to university....

Features

As financial planners and advisers prepare for FASEA’s requirements, as well as sitting the first exam, more education providers have released details of what they’re off...

Policy & Regulation

With FASEA having released a list of approved courses overnight, there have been questions over the appropriateness of some of the selections....

Policy & Regulation

FASEA has confirmed its approval of a first round of graduate diplomas and bridging courses from select higher education providers as part of its education standard for f...

Financial planning

Kaplan Professional has received approval from FASEA for the graduate Diploma of Financial Planning and bridging courses as stand-alone subjects....

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