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More global, more professional: FPSB

The Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB), the umbrella body that offers Certified Financial Planners (CFP) certification, is undergoing a major system overhaul that will benefit CFP-accredited financial planners by making their accreditation recognised ...

Whose side are you on, asks ASIC

... regulation set by ASIC should be viewed as the "bare minimum" and he urged planners to aspire to a higher competency and ethical standards if they want the general public to view planners as "professionals." "As a profession, you should not aim to take ...

Record numbers achieve CFA charter

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2006
... this year. To earn a CFAA(R) charter candidates must undertake a challenging program of study, covering topics such as ethical and professional standards, equity, debt and derivatives analysis, alternative investments, financial statement analysis, quantitative ...

Liquidator gets 12 month suspension

... company where there was an existing relationship with a creditor of the appointee company. "Independence is fundamental to ethical standards of professional conduct. Businesses and members of the public must be able to rely on auditors and liquidators ...

It's time to work together: MDRT

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2006
... on how to run, and continue running, a successful business, manage business administration and maintain best practice ethical standards. And for MDRT, ethics are at the heart of everything. "MDRT has always had a strong code of ethics. It's the cornerstone ...

Max Super to go max Direct with investment funds

... looking to offer fairly simple stuff. The first will be an index tracking offer and further down the line we'd be looking at ethical investments and high yield," he said. As with max Super, max Direct will be specifically targeted towards the needs of ...

Big gaps in performance between managers

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2006
... cent over the year, with Aberdeen Wholesale International Equity fund returning 34.16 per cent and Hunter Hall's Global Ethical Trust returning 31.26 per cent. Over the year unhedged funds had a relative advantage to their hedged counterparts, with Vanguard's ...

VFMC busted investing with tobacco giant

... of the $37 billion they manage, with Altria. "We don't invest the funds of superannuation beneficiaries on the basis of ethical guidelines," Bracks told the ABC yesterday, adding, "they're invested on the basis of value for money for those members to ...

PIS set for a million dollar make-over

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2006
... financial success of its own constituents. MDRT has been offering support, business and personal enhancement strategies, ethical leadership and practice management skills coaching to its members since 1927. Chief executive officer of PIS, Robbie Bennets ...

Suncorp scores $35m AMP mandate

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2006
... Stephen Lam, said the bottom-up stock selection approach had proved successful over time and was well suited to managing an ethical mandate. "This stock selection process is extended to our ethical investment process as it becomes even more important ...