FASEA

Financial planning

Deakin University has told the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority it believes financial planners want the exam process to cover areas that are relevant to w...

Financial planning

Providing self-managed super funds advice requires a higher standard than is being indicated by FASEA, according to the SMSF Association....

Features

Mike Taylor writes that if one thing has distinguished the past five years in the financial services it has been the exponential growth in regulatory and compliance costs...

Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has released its draft guidance on continuing professional development and foreign qualifications, adding to the grad...

Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has made clear it will not tolerate any blurring of the status of trainee advisers, with planning firms needing to ma...

Policy & Regulation

The Financial Advisers Standards and Ethics Authority has proposed the creation of Provisional Financial Advisers to cover those undertaking their professional year requi...

Financial planning

The new standards to be put in place under the FASEA regime present challenges for those who predominantly provide SMSF advice under a limited licence, the online advice ...

Financial planning

The professional body representing the SMSF sector has called on FASEA to provide more guidance about how recognised prior learning for existing financial advisers will b...

Outsider

Outsider believes he has discovered what many financial planners will think is a time warp....

Editorial

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has had a less than stellar beginning and owes it to the financial planning industry to pick up its act and deliver a...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has issued an online questionnaire for members to complete on the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s Financial Adviser ...

Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has released proposed guidance on the compulsory Financial Adviser Examination, amid cries from the industry that mor...

Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has released proposed guidance on the Financial Adviser Examination that is flagged to form a compulsory part of its ...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned that the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority is at an inflection point and may have already lost the hearts ...

Financial planning

The high cost of acquiring and then maintaining code-monitoring status may finally serve to unite the key financial planning organisations....

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