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GRI sets up Australian base

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... environmental and social performance after the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) announced it's collaborating with the St James Ethics Centre. The reporting initiative is used by more than 1,600 organisations globally to measure and report economic ...

Getting ethics back on track

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Good advice? Check. Good investments? Check. Ethics? Hmmm. A US-based financial advice expert said ethics is the third often overlooked plank of a successful business. Speaking at the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) conference in Sydney yesterday ...

CFA takes ethics inhouse

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
The CFA Society of Sydney has launched its Ethics and Financial Integrity workshop this week and intends to offer the program internally for finance companies in the coming months. "This is the first in a series of what we'd like to roll out on a more ...

FPA disciplines 13 members

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
... financial planning profession is committed to maintaining a high standard of professional accountability. The FPA has a code of ethics and rules of professional conduct, a draft set of new practice standards, and conflict of interest principles which ...

CSRF drops SIM for AMP

... fund chose AMP's product because investors who invest over $50 million in the fund are offered a spot on the product's ethics committee. "CSRF will take up that position. While we are one of a number of investors on the committee, and it is an advisory ...

FPA to offer Life Risk course

... practitioner members to gain a professional identification in their area of speciality. The new program combines modules on ethics and the specialty area, for example life risk, to deliver an advanced level professional qualification, higher than ASIC's ...

FPA drafts practice principles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
... the Practice Standards. Previously the FPA framework to support professionalism amongst its members included a code of ethics and a set of rules for professional conduct. After a four-month consultation process, the Practice Standards will be introduced ...

AFA maps education Pathway

... FChFP designation," said the group's chief executive Richard Klipin. Pairing up with PS146 Training, the four units are Ethics & Compliance in Practice; Client Engagement & Advice; Understanding, Applying & Implementing Financial Solutions and Managing ...

New era for investment analysts

... such as investment policy, asset allocation, legal and regulatory environment, due diligence and manager selection and ethics. There is also the AMP-sponsored CIMA scholarship, worth $5,500, which is the first of its kind in the institutional market. ...

Post sub-prime, ethics more crucial than ever: CFAs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
... courses. "We must push back against complexity," said Diermeir. There must also be tougher emphasis on codes of conduct and ethics, which is why the CFA Institute is producing many papers on trustee, investment manger and fiduciary standards that they ...