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FASEA releases draft degree requirement legislation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... existing advisers for the eight subject graduate diploma as well as bridging courses on the Corporations Act and behavioural finance, client and consumer behaviour. New entrants may also receive RPL for the new entrant pathway as per the policies of ...

FASEA listens as advice industry combs blueprint

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... from a short list of related fields," AFA chief executive Phil Kewin said. These fields include accounting, taxation law, finance law, finance, business law, investment, estate law, banking and economics. "This is much more in alignment with what we ...

Royal Commission puts bonuses on notice

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... Australia's biggest bank bosses face the Royal Commission. According to researchers from the university's Applied Finance department, balanced scorecards are a common remuneration practice - which often pits an employee's sales performance ...

FASEA clarifies adviser exam rules

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
... AQF8 Graduate Diploma once approved by FASEA. Advisers will be able to seek RPL for the Corporations Act and Behavioural Finance Client and Consumer Behaviour bridging courses. There will be no RPL available for the newly created Code of Ethics bridging ...

New degree tackles adviser education standards

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... planners seeking to update their qualifications, UTS said. Associate professor and deputy chair of the UTS Business School finance department Marco Navone said the postgraduate degree was developed following extensive consultation with industry, and ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... duration assets will perform better. Not as passive Talis Putnins, a professor at the University of Technology Sydney's Finance Discipline Group, says he sees no evidence of ETFs eroding market efficiency. A paper he co-authored called the Active ...

Swiss manager invests in Queensland solar

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2018
... infrastructure, investing for the European Investment Bank and pension funds. It has just closed a deal to acquire and finance the construction of a solar plant in Queensland's Middlemount that will be able to generate electricity for 24,000 households. ...

Global tech wars disrupt $600m market

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... demographic segment, stand to benefit the most from the digital re-invention forced upon the incumbents. Asked how traditional finance outfits can better compete with the FAANGs and BATs of this world, Brett King, founder of mobile neo-bank Moven, says ...

Whitehelm targets $2.4tn sector

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... smart city infrastructure across Europe, North America, Australia and other major urban areas globally. The fund will finance the scale up of integrated smart city solutions, which currently do not have access to long-term institutional financing and ...

FPA fines Henderson $50k

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... executive Brett Schatto. Henderson was a popular media figure, hosting SKY's Your Money, Your Call and appearing as a finance expert on Channel 10's The Project and Channel 9's The Today Show.