FASEA

Financial planning

Give professional associations leadership on CPD says SMSF Association

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has been urged to give professional associations leadership on continuing professional development with the SMSF Asso...

Financial planning

FASEA could turn advisers into money coaches

Financial advisers worried about the incoming education reforms could restructure their business to become money coaches. ...

Financial planning

FASEA timing ‘absolutely unreasonable’ says AFA

The Association of Financial Advisers has accused the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority of being ‘absolutely unreasonable” with respect to its start-date f...

Financial planning

Financial adviser exam will cost millions

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

FASEA’s CPD expectations ‘totally unreasonable’

Deakin University Professor, Adrian Raftery, has slammed the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority for its unreasonable expectations in terms of continuing pro...

Financial planning

Does FASEA regime discriminate against women and older advisers?

A dealer group chairman has labelled the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime as discriminating against women and older advisers some of whom want to w...

Financial planning

FASEA releases foreign qualifications policy

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has released the processes advisers will have to follow to get recognition of their foreign qualifications....

Financial planning

Future bright for established planners says white paper

Established and well-respected advice firms have little to fear from the Royal Commission, according to a new white paper from ClearView....

Financial planning

Does AMP prove FASEA’s case?

AMP’s chief executive, Michael Wilkins, has told the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry that education has be...

Life/Risk

Call for more mandatory training in life/risk

Life risk industry veteran, Michael Molesworth, has warned that underwriters and claims assessors need to be subject to more stringent education requirements or risk comm...

Policy & Regulation

Advisers must remember to register before FASEA takes effect

Authorised advisers need to make sure they’re on ASIC’s Financial Advisers Register by the end of the year, before new professional standards take effect, or risk being t...

Financial planning

Licensees at centre of FASEA CPD regime

Licensees will be responsible for approving 70 per cent of the continuing professional development hours undertaken by advisers under the new Financial Adviser Standards ...

Financial planning

FASEA confirms all planners will sit same exam

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

FPA reiterates support for planners in face of FASEA

The Financial Planning Association has sought to calm advisers nervous about FASEA’s reforms at its Professionals Congress this morning, promising that “we will help you ...

Financial planning

FASEA on self-imposed year-end deadline

Planners should expect FASEA’s final standards by Christmas, with the Authority’s chief executive, Stephen Glenfield, today saying that his intention was to have them fin...