Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 161 - 169 of 169 results for "Adviser standards"

Associations support adviser standards amendments

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
The latest legislative amendments to raise the education, training and ethical standards of financial advisers have been welcomed by the industry's peak representative groups. Both the Association of Financial Advisers and the Financial Planning Association ...

Adviser standards need a tidy

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) believes it is not clear how proposed education and training requirements for financial advisers would apply to robo-advice. ASFA says if financial advice was to be provided online (robo-advice) ...

CBA publicly welcomes former staff bans

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... community's ability to identify and monitor financial advisers. Other Commonwealth Bank initiatives to improve adviser standards include further enhanced supervision and monitoring, advocacy for an industry wide passport scheme and continuing improvements ...

FEATURE: Adviser education

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... Last year the Commonwealth Bank, among other major financial institutions, released what would be its minimum adviser standards. Financial advisers operating under CBA's Count Financial and Financial Wisdom wealth management licenses are now required ...

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 ...

AMP lifts minimum adviser standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
Australia's largest advice business AMP will require that all of its financial planners hold a post-graduate degree, a move that aims to increase trust in advisers. All existing and new AMP advisers must hold post-graduate qualifications such as a Certified ...

CBA to fund adviser education and association membership

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... tougher adviser education standards announced last week. As revealed by Financial Standard, CBA decided to raise adviser standards in the wake of the final report of the Senate Economics Committee inquiry looking into the performance of the Australian ...

CBA unveils tougher adviser standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
In the wake of the Senate inquiry into the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) will lift the minimum education standards for its financial advisers and demand that they belong to a ...

CPA Aust and ICAA issue comprehensive new adviser standards

CPA Australia and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia (ICAA) have jointly issued significantly enhanced Financial Advisory Standards. Chris Benson, CPA Australia's Manager of Financial Planning says the new standards are necessary because ...