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FASEA exam tips from those who passed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... the experience on exam day, some of the panelists admitted to slightly daunting experiences. "On the day you don't have anything with you except your drivers' licence, a pencil and a piece of paper," James said. "You can't have water at your desk. You ...

Flaws in Grattan SG research: Report

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... research finds no statistical evidence for that claim in Australian empirical data," Stanford said in the introduction. If anything, the research found a slight positive correlation between wage growth and SG. "On average, wages were more likely to accelerate ...

New advice groups detrimental to consumers

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2019
... five years' time we will see permanent loss of capital for those members of our community who can least afford it, and anything we've seen from this Royal Commission will pale by comparison." Appearing on a panel alongside Gupta, Mercer head of industry ...

Life Company of the Year crowned

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019
... exam is three and a half hours long and if you fail you are out of a career. As an adviser this worries me more than anything else." Kewin too had some criticism for FASEA, saying: "We're all about raising ethical standards if we can understand them." ...

AMP contests senior lawyer's claims

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2019
... the company waive any legal professional privilege, or provide Cook the permission to access, copy or use documents for anything other than her job. Cook responds In an emailed response to AMP's defence, Cook said she was disappointed by AMP's ...

Firetrail fund gets Morningstar rating

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2019
... Firetrail's March 2018 inception to October 2019 provides a reminder to investors that returns are unlikely to look anything like the S&P/ASX 200 index," the research note said. It recommends using this as a satellite allocation, within a more broadly ...

Complexity of grandfathered commissions overlooked

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... commissions made up 30% of practice income but by 2017 that proportion had dropped to just 9%. "It is difficult to conclude anything other than, at best, there is extremely limited information available on the extent of grandfathered commissions and ...

Chief economist update: Germany in the budget's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
... rate to 0.4% from 0.9%. These are desperate times for Deutschland and it calls for desperate measures. It can't do anything anymore about monetary policy, the European Central Bank controls interest rates (currently at zero, it ended QE in December ...

Government should intervene in BOLR changes: Opposition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2019
... "passed all the tests that were expected of them by all the regulators". "Therefore, it is not correct to say it has anything to do with the Hayne Royal Commission," Mookhey said. In concluding, Mookhey said he plans to pursue the AMP issue further with ...

ASIC to review end of grandfathering

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... industry to end grandfathering and conflicted remuneration, right up to the 2021 deadline. The regulator will report on anything holding up the transition away from grandfathered remuneration. The review will be both quantitative and qualitative. The ...