The name change decision by the Stockbrokers and Financial Advisers Association was about highlighting the profession rather than a decision to distance itself from the a...

The percentage of candidates who passed February’s financial adviser exam, the first one under the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, has fallen to 32.4%. ...

With a large proportion of financial advisers having now completed the FASEA exam, Alexandra Cain asks whether advisers who passed found it worthwhile?...

Small licensees are further expected to close in the coming weeks with the number of advisers expected to reach between 15,000 and 16,000 this year, according to Wealth D...

Financial advisers can use 2022 as a year of opportunity to build and make their business more efficient given there will be no major regulatory changes over the next yea...

The now-defunct education authority said it had “no power” to exempt an adviser from sitting the exam but had referred any adviser it knew to be experiencing mental healt...

Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand has provided advice to members wishing to cancel their Australian financial service licence following rising costs of runn...

Having been granted a nine-month extension, completing their educational requirements is the top focus for advisers going into 2022....

The cost to sit the financial adviser exam will be higher than initial estimates as it moves to being run by the corporate regulator and any Standard 3 amendment responsi...

The pathway will allow financial advisers who have 10 or more years of full-time experience in the last 12 years to only complete a tertiary level unit on the code of eth...

Those who have not passed the adviser exam and are ineligible for the extension have until the end of the year to come off the Financial Adviser Register to avoid being c...

The Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals has criticised “elitist” younger advisers who do not support Labor’s proposed education exemption for older...

Understanding the code of ethics, statements of advice, breach reporting, and identifying inappropriate advice are some of the key problem areas advisers struggled with i...

If elected, a Labor government would assume that a decade of experience was worth at least a degree and would scrap the degree requirement for those advisers....