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

Search Results

Showing 1901 - 1910 of 2869 results for "Standards"

BT launches 'ground-breaking' advice register

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... planners is what we all should be doing every day." Along with 'Adviser View', BT announced it would be lifting education standards for all its advisers. By the end of 2019 all advisers employed in the Westpac, St. George, Bank of Melbourne and Bank ...

One third of risk advisers non-compliant, ASIC says

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... needs of the client. "This is an unacceptable level of failure, and the life insurance industry is now on notice to lift standards and professionalism. Both insurers and advice firms need to work on delivering a consistently better service for consumers," ...

Adviser trust improves client outcomes

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... Practitioners (FChFP) and 13% hold another financial planning qualification. Industry bodies have advocated improved education standards for some time. In the past two months major banks inlcuding CBA, Westpac, NAB and financial services giant AMP have ...

FSC advice regulation plan leaves AMP cold

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... organisation's Advice Board Committee, which includes a representative from AMP. The FSC proposal to set up an Advice Competency Standards Board (ACSB) to oversee the development of competency standards, adviser education and the register of advisers ...

Hockey accuses Labor of making "a mess" of FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... "given that the [Financial Services Council] FSC now says more, not less regulation for financial advice and professional standards, why has the government decided to dismantle Labor's FoFA reforms and put even more pressure and risk on Australian investors?" ...

Hot property on notice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... risk management and, in turn, financial stability that they do not respond to revenue pressures by loosening lending standards, or making ill-considered moves into new markets or products." "Banks need to ensure that loans originated in the current environment ...

FPA rejects FSC adviser regulation plans

ALICE URIBE, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... its submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI), asked the government to set up a new body, the Advice Competency Standards Board (ACSB), to oversee the development of competency standards, adviser education and the register of advisers. The proposed ...

Dover in search of compliance staff

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... compliance program possible," Dover adviser manager Peter Thompson said. "This starts with advisers understanding our standards and responsibilities, as well as the need for SOAs to be articulated a certain way." Thompson noted that "70-page software-driven ...

Advice associations under conflict of interest on professionalism: ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... Investments Commission has argued. "Industry associations have an inevitable conflict of interest between enforcing standards of conduct against members, and receiving member fees and encouraging new members," ASIC said in a submission to the Parliamentary ...

AMP Horizons launches online masters with Griffith University

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... really appeal to people looking to further their career as a financial adviser and aspire to the highest professional standards," AMP Horizons director Amelia Constantinidis. Griffith University discipline head of finance and financial planning associate ...