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Key Budget measure won't help economy: Academic

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2022
... down the 2022/23 Federal Budget next Tuesday. While it would be welcome news to many households, Macquarie University's Bachelor of Commerce course director Prashan Karunaratne said the use of Centrelink payments when unemployment is so low and inflation ...

Experienced advisers in education limbo

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2022
Experienced financial advisers that have yet to gain a bachelor's degree or equivalent are caught in the middle of a political maelstrom promising an easier education pathway. With both major parties announcing significant changes to adviser qualifications ...

Alpha females

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... highlighted a curious personal bias, finding that heterosexual male chief executives married to women with higher educations (bachelor's degree or higher) were more likely to appoint women to leadership positions. Male chief executives married to women ...

Risk, compliance salaries soar: Data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2022
A shallow talent pool means risk and compliance professionals are a hot commodity in 2022, as data shows entry-level salaries having increased by a whopping 66% since the Royal Commission. According to Kaizen Recruitment, this year continues to see ...

Labor promises to recognise adviser experience

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2021
Labor promises it will dump educational requirements for financial advisers with over a decade's experience if it comes to power. Shadow minister for financial services Stephen Jones said such advisers with a clean record will not be required to ...

Advisers closer to professionalisation: FASEA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2021
... core knowledge areas for financial advice, regardless of future advice specialisation. FASEA has approved 67 current bachelor's degrees or higher across 27 higher education providers. Existing advisers with a bachelor or higher degree deemed as a FASEA-approved ...

FASEA approves two degrees

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
The Financial Advisers Ethics and Standards Authority has added two degrees to its approved list of courses. Any bachelor's degree with a major in financial services that commenced from March 2021 at Southern Cross University has been given FASEA's ...

ARK Innovation ETF cops neutral rating

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
Despite delivering a stellar performance, star fund manager Catherine Wood's ARK Innovation ETF has been slapped with a neutral rating from Morningstar. Morningstar strategist Robby Greengold said personnel issues and lax risk controls could be ...

ASIC bans former IOOF, MLC adviser

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... authorised representative of Meritum. Pavlidis' LinkedIn profile says that he has a Diploma of Financial Planning and a Bachelor of Business, Economics and Marketing. His LinkedIn also shows that in the 1980s and 90s he was a sales representative ...

FASEA urges advisers to maximise exam sittings

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
... 2026 to reach an education standard equivalent to an approved degree. In December, FASEA approved two more degrees - the Bachelor of Commerce majoring in financial planning offered by the University of New South Wales and the Graduate Diploma in Financial ...