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Forget about national advice exam, focus on training: CPA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... papers by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in 2011 and 2013 have proposed lifting the current minimum standards. However, they have failed to assess "other critical elements such as the duration of study for a specialist knowledge ...

Advisers ask for segmented education standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
Financial advisers have asked that the minimum education standards are not set up following a 'one size fits all' approach, but instead take into account individual advisers' areas of focus. As part of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) Female ...

Advisers must attend ethics classes, say ISA and AIST

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... financial advisers "with mandatory competencies including ethics and conduct." The two industry bodies also called for a minimum degree requirement for advisers giving personal advice, mandatory continual professional development (CPD) for all advisers ...

Institutions' bid to raise adviser education not genuine: FSU

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... Australia Bank (NAB), AMP Group A and Westpac-owned BT Financial Group have announced significant increases to their advisers' minimum education standards. However, the union noted that "there is still the gap that an increased education standard would ...

Higher adviser education should kick off on 2018: FPA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... education standards of their financial advisers. The submission, which has not been made public yet, focuses on increasing minimum education standards and requirements for those providing personal financial advice to consumers. is a natural continuation ...

Body needed to monitor adviser competency: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... providing personal advice, general advice or general information and intra-fund advice. The proposed entity should also set minimum competency requirements, ongoing education requirements and advanced competency requirements that would enable adviser ...

Aligned licensees could be renamed "restricted advice" groups

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... rather than regulating all as a single class of activity." The regulator also highlighted the need to raise adviser's minimum education requirements, to create a national register of financial advisers and to establish a national examination for planners ...

Higher education will not fix advice industry problems: Accountants

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... last five years." The CAANZ asked for the establishment of a professional education framework that transitions advisers' minimum education requirements to at least an undergraduate degree level. Advisers should go through a practical experience component ...

EQT adds Dundas Global Equity to mFund

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... distributed though EQT to 15. EQT Dundas Global Equity invests in 60-80 companies from developed and emerging markets with a minimum stock capitation of US$1 billion. The objective is to invest in stocks with high real book value growth and growing dividend ...

BT unveils tougher adviser standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
Westpac-owned BT Financial Group is the latest group to confirm new minimum education requirements for its financial advisers, responding to mounting pressure from consumers, associations and a Senate Economics Committee report. Similar to the new rules ...