FASEA

Financial planning

With the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s education reforms looking inevitable, advisers need to turn their mind to where and how they will study once t...

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Financial planning

The Financial Standards and Ethics Authority isn’t comparing apples with apples, with accountants snubbing the idea of ‘study for study’s sake’, according to AccountantsI...

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Features

Anastasia Santoreneos writes that while FASEA and the Royal Commission have got advisers down in the short term, they are feeling positive about the future of the industr...

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Policy & Regulation

Deakin Business School associate professor, Adrian Raftery has raised questions about whether the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has met its financial f...

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Financial planning

Many financial planning practice owners are seeking to move ahead of knowing the final shape of the new Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime, according...

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Financial planning

Experts say the continuing uncertainty and fear surrounding the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s future requirements has adviser sentiment unsurprisingl...

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Editorial

Even allowing for an injection of pragmatism the essential elements of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime will remain unchanged and planners will...

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People & Products

Financial Planning Association board director Marisa Broome will take over as chair from Neil Kendall when his term ends on 21 November, this year....

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Outsider

Outsider likes to hold to the old Groucho Marx maxim that he would not care to be a member of any club which would have him as a member....

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Features

Synchron’s Don Trapnell explains why there are distinct differences between life/risk advisers and those providing holistic advice and why this should be recognised under...

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Financial planning

Aussie universities have been left in the dark as the Financial Advisers Standards and Ethics Authority takes its time to roll out its proposed reforms....

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Financial planning

Amid Federal Opposition calls to extend the Royal Commission real questions are being asked about key elements of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority reg...

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Financial planning

Financial services education group, the Portfolio Construction Forum, has urged the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority to move its proposed CPD regime beyon...

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Expert Analysis

With another round of Royal Commission hearings having drawn to a close and proposed education reforms remaining somewhat unknown, Matt Swieconek looks at how the changes...

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Financial planning

Money Management’s Top 100 planning groups survey shows planner numbers have defied industry turbulence to reach their highest level in half a decade, but is this the pea...

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