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Adviser reputation hits all-time low

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... Australia's thirty most respected professions. Financial planners are "at their lowest ever rating for very high or high 'ethics and honesty' following a series of scandals in the industry," Roy Morgan executive chairman Gary Morgan said. Insurance brokers ...

FSC hails register a step towards profession status

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... advisers and the advice sector. We support the ASIC register, national exams, university degrees and an adherence to a code of ethics. "The sector will evolve into a profession - as it must."

Treasury starts consultation for higher advice standards

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... into financial advisers' education requirements. "With the right model, improvements in the qualifications, competence and ethics of the financial advice industry will be a win-win," Frydenberg said. The PJC proposed a co-regulatory model, in which Government ...

Employers must do more to promote ethical culture

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... planners by the board of the Banking and Finance Oath (BFO). The BFO is an initiative formed to encourage and support strong ethics in the banking and finance industry.

Assistant Treasurer to consult with financial advice stakeholders

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... qualifications and competence of financial advisers, and to enhance the financial advice industry's professional standards and ethics." To that end, he continued, the government would support a "co-regulatory model" where it, professional associations ...

Medcraft backs national adviser exam

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... of advisers have," Medcraft continued.A "There should be a compulsory module for the basic skills all advisers need and ethics needs to be the cornerstone of such a module. There would then be optional modules covering different areas of specialisation. ...

ASIC stands up for adviser national exam

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... different skills different types of advisers have," he added, and proposed a compulsory module for the basic skills, with ethics as the cornerstone of this module. Then, there would then be optional modules covering different areas of specialisation. ...

Advisers must attend ethics classes, say ISA and AIST

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
Financial advisers should be forced to undergo mandatory ethics classes as part of a comprehensive overhaul of the professional standards of the industry, the not-for-profit superannuation industry has argued. In a joint submission to the Parliamentary ...

AMP lifts minimum adviser standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... comprise highly qualified advisers and AMP chief customer officer Paul Sainsbury. The group will develop a broad-ranging ethics and responsible decision-making program for advisers in conjunction with the St James Ethics Centre with industry input. The ...

General advice is not advice: Rantall

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... professionally qualified financial planner who is a member of a professional association, who adheres to a code of conduct and ethics, and who is educated and certified at an appropriate level. He said eventually they must be required to hold a degree. ...