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SMSF Association introduces new accreditation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... Practitioner accreditation designed as a stepping stone for associates to build their knowledge prior to attaining specialisation. The industry body is also bringing in a Graduate Certificate program and made its Australian Taxation Office (ATO) approved ...

Medcraft backs national adviser exam

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... needs to be the cornerstone of such a module. There would then be optional modules covering different areas of specialisation. "The exam should also be conducted in a secure environment, to maintain the exam's integrity and to avoid cheating." Medcraft's ...

ASIC stands up for adviser national exam

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... ethics as the cornerstone of this module. Then, there would then be optional modules covering different areas of specialisation. "The exam should also be conducted in a secure environment, to maintain the exam's integrity and to avoid cheating," Medcraft ...

Equip-AustSuper partnership draws interest

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... people who are going to think that, but absolutely not. There's absolutely no intention of that. It's really about specialisation. We certainly don't see it as having to do with a merger down the track." While there is a great deal of talk about mergers ...

BT launches 'ground-breaking' advice register

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... "ground-breaking" initiative, the tool allows potential customers to search for an adviser by name, postcode or specialisation. Customers who have received advice from a BT adviser are invited to rate them out five on four criteria: how clearly they ...

FPA rejects FSC adviser regulation plans

ALICE URIBE, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... competency requirements, ongoing education requirements and advanced competency requirements that would enable adviser specialisation. However FPA chief executive Mark Rantall said that its own Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) was a "good ...

Body needed to monitor adviser competency: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... competency requirements, ongoing education requirements and advanced competency requirements that would enable adviser specialisation. The board would establish competency setting sub-committees made up of advice training professionals, licensee representatives ...

NTAA keen to establish referral relations with advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... financial advisers and accountants will be providing advice in a very different way." "There will be a high level of specialisation and we want to build good relations with advisers," he said. Osborne spoke only days after his organisation released communication ...

Advice firms start to launch in post-FoFA regime

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... better." Handley said that "there are still lots of opportunities to give advice" but said that the key to success is specialisation. Bombora will partner with advisers, accountants and lawyers to help them provide risk advice to their clients. The firm ...

Advisers saturate HNW space

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... Geary said that there was a misunderstanding among advisers over the difficulty of serving HNWs, a space where high specialisation and full-time dedication are required. "Applying retail financial planning tools to HNW clients doesn't work." The report ...