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EXCLUSIVE: BTFG and Morningstar announce adviser and research partnership

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
... 12 based in Australia. "For us, it is all about quality research - our analysts are held to the highest professional standards and report on investments fairly, accurately, and from the investor's point of view," Wickham said. The new arrangement takes ...

AFA launches conference program

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... will benefit from sessions dedicated to a range of topics including building consumer trust through higher professional standards, integrating fees into risk advice, the role of the adviser in the claims process and where the threshold lies between general ...

Government names advice standards chief

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... (FASEA) is welcoming its inaugural chief executive. Deen Sanders, currently assistant commissioner of the Professional Standards Authority of Australia, will take on the role at FASEA on September 18. Sanders was also previously the chief professional ...

Retirement advice will take hit from education reform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2017
... with retirement, many planners are instead opting to leave the industry ahead of the introduction of new professional standards, according to Mentor Education. Mentor Education founder and managing director Mark Sinclair said there is a significant vacuum ...

No age limit on great advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
... said. Further, Sillar is looking forward to the greater competition created by the introduction of the new professional standards. "I think it's a natural part of any profession to be founded on education and this is the natural evolution of the advice ...

AFA collaborating for education framework rethink

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017
... education pathway, reflective of what consumers' value about financial advice and complementary to the Professional Standards legislation. "This is an important inflection point for our profession. It needs the voice of advisers to help shape the profession ...

FPA professionalism plans garner adviser support

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
... strong margin of financial advisers support the association's proposals around the forthcoming education and professional standards legislation. FPA chief executive Dante De Gori said the response from members to the FPAs 100-point plan, submitted to ...

SMSF auditor busted self-auditing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2017
... fundamental role in promoting confidence in the SMSF sector so it is crucial that they adhere to ethical and professional standards. ASIC will continue to take action where the conduct of SMSF auditors is inadequate," ASIC commissioner John Price said. ...

Advisers preparing ahead of professional standards: Spot poll

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
Sixty per cent of financial advisers are already taking some course of action to address the incoming professional standards legislation in 2019. Last week the Financial Standard weekly readership survey asked 'As a financial adviser, what are you doing ...

BTFG working to improve culture, ethics

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... Spiers described the integration of ethics and advice as a strong step ahead of the introduction of new professional standards in 2019. "As an industry we have to get ethics and behaviour right so we can shape and lift the culture across the advice industry," ...