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Overhaul executive remuneration: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... evaluates their performance on customer advocacy or net promoter score. This week we ask if the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority's examination blueprint is fair and reasonable.

FASEA releases draft degree requirement legislation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority released its long awaited degree requirements for existing financial advisers and new entrants. FASEA has proposed the maximum requirement for an existing adviser be a graduate diploma of eight subjects ...

FASEA listens as advice industry combs blueprint

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... "This latest publication illustrates that FASEA had listened to industry feedback by improving clarity around the code of ethics, reducing its CPD requirements to more realistic levels and clarifying some elements of its education standards for existing ...

Code of ethics still the main game: FPA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
Financial Planning Association of Australia head of policy and standards Ben Marshan said the FASEA-led Code of Ethics remains the biggest game changer to the advice industry. Speaking at the Challenger Financial Standard Technical Services Forum on ...

FASEA clarifies adviser exam rules

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
Among a wide-ranging update on Friday evening, the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority concreted several aspects to an industry exam. It also released a standards blueprint. FASEA said the duration of the financial adviser exam will be ...

AI ramping up but legal risks remain

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... understand the legal risks of the AI technologies they are adopting. Only 7% of the surveyed institutions had a policy about the ethics of AI technology. Booming sector The report found AI technologies have ticked up at financial services companies in ...

New degree tackles adviser education standards

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... training in how to run a financial planning business, as well as advanced interpersonal communication skills and professional ethics," he said. Navone said specialised knowledge on aged care and retirement planning are other areas that are in high demand. ...

ASIC moves to make licensees FASEA compliant

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018
... Regulatory Guide 105 that would reflect the professional standards reforms to be dictated by the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority. The consultation focuses on the organisational competence of advice licensees with ASIC looking to introduce ...

More than half of advisers without association membership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... flagged interest in becoming code monitoring bodies in line with the new requirement for advisers to comply with a code of ethics by January 2020. Rounding out the top four, 1758 advisers identify as members of CPA Australia while 1230 declare an affiliation ...

FPA and AFA aim to administer adviser standards

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... Advisers are putting cases forward to manage adviser compliance schemes resulting from the industry's new education and ethics standards. The FPA told its member base it has created a separate entity and lodged an expression of interest to ASIC to ...