Body needed to monitor adviser competency: FSCBY LAURA MILLAN | TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014 12:25PMThe financial advice sector is in need of change and a new Advice Competency Standards Board should lead the transformation, according to the Financial Services Council (FSC). Related News |
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Matt Gaden
HEAD OF AUSTRALIA
JANUS HENDERSON INVESTORS (AUSTRALIA) LIMITED
JANUS HENDERSON INVESTORS (AUSTRALIA) LIMITED
Helping investors traverse financial markets and build their wealth during the peaks and troughs is Janus Henderson Investors head of Australia Matt Gaden's game plan. He tells Karren Vergara why in this long game of investing, active management wins.
It makes a lot of sense and will remove any bias and differential treatment or preference that we so often see.
Professional bodies have their place but professional unification can only come about with a registration board. I originally qualified with the then Public Accountants Registration Board [PARB] of NSW and if you were a Chartered Accountant you still had pt have PARB registration.
It got abolished and there was no replacement so we regularly see some sort of contest between CA, CPA and IPA, not dissimilar to what one sees 'occasionally' within the FP profession.