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Industry needs to act after Trowbridge report failure

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... inquiry: degree-level qualifications, 12 months of supervised training and a registration exam following the training period. The PJC also recommended establishing an independent financial advice education council to formalise professional standards ...

Bernie Ripoll to retire from federal politics

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) acknowledged Ripoll's role as chair of the Parliamentary Joint Commission (PJC) inquiry into financial services and products that produced the report that recommended the FoFA reform. "As a result ...

Treasury starts consultation for higher advice standards

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said. The consultation paper is based on the recommendations of the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) on Corporations and Financial Services, which recently conducted an inquiry into financial advisers' education requirements. ...

FPA sets sights on lifting professional standards

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
... we are pleased to see that the Financial System Inquiry, Senate Inquiry into the Performance of ASIC and most recently the PJC Inquiry have widely supported the measures we called for in the FPA 10 Point Plan. "While advice practices and education standards ...

FPA appoints new CRC Chair, rolls out education standards

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... Commission (CRC) and rolled out a proposed Education and Professional Standards Framework to the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) Inquiry. The FPA has appointed Dr June Smith as Chair of its CRC, replacing Professor Dimity Kingsford Smith who held ...

Advice associations under conflict of interest on professionalism: ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... members, and receiving member fees and encouraging new members," ASIC said in a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) inquiry into adviser professional, ethical and education standards in the financial services industry. Quoting a report ...

Forget about national advice exam, focus on training: CPA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... organisations exposed their position regarding adviser education in a joint submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) inquiry into lifting the professional standards in the financial services industry. The submission highlighted that competency ...

Advisers must attend ethics classes, say ISA and AIST

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... superannuation industry has argued. In a joint submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services (PJC), Industry Super Australia (ISA) and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) argued for the ...

Institutions' bid to raise adviser education not genuine: FSU

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... Licensees to better the integrity and transparency of the industry." In a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) inquiry into proposals to lift the professional, ethical and education standards in the financial services industry, the FSU ...

Higher adviser education should kick off on 2018: FPA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... from January 1, 2018, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) said in its submission to a Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) inquiry. The PJC on Corporations and Financial Services is conducting an inquiry into proposals to lift the professional, ethical ...