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TAL offers advisers ethics assistance

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... Development (CPD) hours in 'Professionalism and Ethics' and pass a FASEA examination, which consists of a section on 'Applied Ethical and Professional Reasoning.'" There are currently very few resources available to support financial advisers in understanding ...

Ethical funds not ambitious enough: Future Super

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... "Our portfolios abated more carbon than was produced. When you look at our impact report and then you look at supposedly ethical funds who are hoping to de-carbonise their portfolios by 2050, you start to think those superfunds don't look very ambitious ...

Fund manager buys into Morphic AM

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
... which will now become an Ellerston subsidiary. Morphic operates three funds: Morphic Global Opportunities Fun and Morphic Ethical Equities Fund (ASX-listed), which are both certified by the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia, and Trium ...

Legg Mason launches new fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... frameworks. The Legg Mason QS Investors Global Responsible Investment Fund will embed positive ESG analysis alongside certain ethical restrictions. The fund aims to outperform the MSCI World ESG Leaders Index and to tap into the experience and expertise ...

FASEA reveals exam dates

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2019
... application of knowledge in core competency areas, including regulatory and legal requirements, the construction of advice and ethical and professional reasoning and communication. Recently, FASEA admitted it will miss its own deadline for the approval ...

Beware: Zombie ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... Fund, three ETF Securities products (physical palladium, platinum and precious metal), and three UBS IQ products (Japan ethical, USA ethical and research preference Australian share). The funds under management across the nine funds range from $1.7 million ...

NZ$5 trillion investor group supports Christchurch Call

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... Zealand Investments, JBWere NZ, Milford Asset Management, Westpac/BT Funds management, AMP Capital International, Australian Ethical, HESTA, Church of England Pensions Board, Media Super, Mercer Global and VicSuper have since joined the cause - amongst ...

Ethics Centre to launch FASEA approved course

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... professional service in all areas but one - their ethics," he said. "The ideal is for this emerging profession to have a common ethical foundation, enriched by a common understanding informed by a common set of educational experiences. Our hope is that ...

No single solution for advice: CFA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... remuneration of advisers and senior executives to be aligned to customer interests, by banning "product pushing" and rewarding ethical practices and decision making. The institute also recommended outlawing grandfathered commissions within the next 12 ...

Advice and accounting align post-Royal Commission: CountPlus

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... better-placed than ever before to thrive in a new world of professionalism underpinned by higher educational, professional and ethical standards and stricter regulation," Rowe said. He explained that the natural home for this new advice paradigm to flourish ...