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Industry meets behind closed doors to fix advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... education standards for financial advisers. The roundtable is the first of three and will focus on the Parliamentary Joint Committee report, following the inquiry into advice standards, the Assistant Treasurer's office confirmed to Financial Standard. ...

Industry needs to act after Trowbridge report failure

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... professional standards of life risk advice, Rowe supported adopting the recommendations made in the parliamentary joint committee on corporations and financial services inquiry: degree-level qualifications, 12 months of supervised training and a registration ...

Treasury starts consultation for higher advice standards

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said. The consultation paper is based on the recommendations of the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) on Corporations and Financial Services, which recently conducted an inquiry into financial advisers' education ...

Labor backs ASIC data retention authority

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... amendments were necessary due to the "significant shortcomings" of the original bill. Dreyfus thanked the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security for its recommendations, emphasising the importance of "authorising ASIC and the ACCC ...

Assistant Treasurer to consult with financial advice stakeholders

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... industry with all relevant "stakeholders" prior to making any policy decisions. Noting the value of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services' recommendations and agreeing that the current regulatory system for the training ...

Industry waiting on Frydenberg for adviser education guidance

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... inquiry's conclusions when they were released on December 19. The bipartisan report put together by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on corporations and financial services recommended to raise the minimum qualification for financial advisers and the ...

ASIC stands up for adviser national exam

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... compulsory national examination will help it do that," Medcraft said during an appearance before the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services. Medcraft proposed to put in place a co-regulatory model where industry would set ...

FPA appoints new CRC Chair, rolls out education standards

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... Commission (CRC) and rolled out a proposed Education and Professional Standards Framework to the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) Inquiry. The FPA has appointed Dr June Smith as Chair of its CRC, replacing Professor Dimity Kingsford Smith who held ...

FSC advice regulation plan leaves AMP cold

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... and that "there has been no ASIC involvement in the creation of the plan." In a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PFC) inquiry on adviser education and professional standards, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) ...

Advice associations under conflict of interest on professionalism: ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... members, and receiving member fees and encouraging new members," ASIC said in a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) inquiry into adviser professional, ethical and education standards in the financial services industry. Quoting a report ...