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FPA membership declines, deficit materialises

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2022
... expectations due to several factors that continue to impact the financial planning sector, including industry reform, new FASEA education and professional standards, changes to business models, and adviser numbers within large AFSLs. "These factors have ...

A year of change: Phil Anderson

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2022
... entrants have passed the exam over the course of this year, and there is at least 270 based upon what ASIC has told us and what FASEA told us last year, which means around 380 existing advisers have passed the exam," he said. He said ASIC advised earlier ...

Increasing number of advisers look to self-licence

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2022
... net profit margins are moving in the right direction. "Advisers are refocusing efforts on new business post the COVID and FASEA disruption. This, combined with an increasing focus on higher value clients has delivered record high levels of new inflow ...

The time is right: AFA chief

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2022
... entity will be the CFP. Anderson says only a handful are still doing the FChFP due to the significant drop-off prompted by FASEA. "Ever since the FASEA education reforms came into effect in 2019, the highest priority for advisers has been the Graduate ...

AFA, FPA to explore merger

CASSANDRA BALDINI, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2022
... "There are very few people who are currently in the process of completing the AFA's professional designations, given the FASEA reforms. And we would ultimately need to reinvest in those so the decision is made to continue to recognise those who have ...

Experienced advisers in education limbo

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2022
... executive director Peter Johnston is urging affected student members to "not commit to any additional studies to satisfy FASEA until after the election result". "However, if you are committing to additional studies to further your knowledge and expertise ...

ASIC sets adviser exam dates

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2022
ASIC has set the final three sitting dates for the financial adviser exam in 2022. Following the first round of exams that took place in February, ASIC announced new sitting dates yesterday. Enrolments for the May sitting open on April 4 and close on ...

Hume pledges less red tape for advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2022
... requirements will ensure high quality financial advice available to consumers - which will "achieve the intention of the FASEA reforms without micromanaging advisers, universities, students and businesses". The Labor Party's Stephen Jones, who also ...

FPA calls for stronger experience pathway

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2022
... status at risk. Some 83% of FPA members have already met or are currently undertaking mandatory study set by the now-defunct FASEA. "These members have let us know in no uncertain terms that they feel the proposal undermines the commitment they have ...

Education reforms are promising: SAFAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2022
... long and complex lists of 'gifted' financial planning degrees and rejecting those that could not be forced into the FASEA-constructed 'straight-jacket'. It recognises that a 'one-size-fits-all' approach to the financial advice ...