Licensees should ensure they pre-vet any advice given, according to Fourth Line, as it is no longer acceptable to conduct retrospective audits....

One of the most important factors to a successful Professional Year strategy is for firms to look beyond the 12-month horizon and how a candidate can develop at the firm ...

Liam Cormican explores what factors might have driven a higher proportion of people to fail the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s first financial adviser...

It is the professional year that is the biggest hurdle for new entrants rather than exams but things are likely to improve in 2022 when it is clear how many existing advi...

Registrations close today for the July exam but sitting next month would give advisers the opportunity to sit again in 2022 if they fail. ...

In the last four exams, the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has acknowledged that advice documentation is a problem area with exam performance. ...

The industry has now had four rounds of FASEA exams, but Chris Dastoor writes advisers – particularly those who have passed – are still as confused and unhappy about the ...