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Bridges can meet advice affordability gap: Mota

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2023
... self-employed channels showing a moderation in decline over recent periods. This was driven in part by the expiry of the FASEA exam deadline on 30 September 2022. Declines are consistent with slowing reductions across the industry," the directors' ...

More advisers fail FASEA exam

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2021
Only half of the financial advisers who sat the November exam passed, making this the lowest pass rate on record. Fifty-two percent of the 2129 advisers who sat the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exam were successful. The pass rate ...

FASEA exam pass rate drops

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
The financial adviser exam pass rate continues to dwindle as less than two-thirds of financial advisers passed the July exam sitting. The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority announced yesterday that 60% of the 1963 candidates passed the ...

Financial adviser levy to drop

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2021
... the right direction. "The financial advisers the AFA represents are dealing with a requirement to sit a compulsory FASEA exam and meet other education standards to keep their livelihood, on top of an overwhelming volume of other regulatory reform, huge ...

CountPlus profit plummets

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021
... million as grandfathered commissions came to a halt and COVID-19 impacted the business. Regulatory reform, namely the FASEA exam, also impacted the business however, the biggest impact came from CountPlus changing to a 'clean' user-pays model without ...

Benefits of advice reforms yet to materialise

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2021
... will take effect in October while all existing registered financial advisers have until 1 January 2022 to pass the FASEA exam (with a nine-month extension granted in some cases). Finally, the Better Advice Bill, which is yet to be legislated, will have ...

Advice association shutters

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2021
A financial advice industry association, which had been vocal in boycotting the FASEA exam and fighting to retain life commissions, has shuttered. The United Financial Advisers Association (UFAA), which claimed to have 6000 members, quietly ended operations ...

Advisers who failed FASEA exam granted extension

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021
... COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption it has caused, the Morrison government has introduced "very limited changes to FASEA exam requirements", she said. "For those who have made two genuine attempts to pass the FASEA exam, and were unable, there will ...

CountPlus acquisitions boost revenue by $9.4m

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021
... provider of outsourced paraplanning services, Rowe said. The majority of the group's advisers (85%) have passed the FASEA exam. "The remaining advisers have either sat the FASEA exam in May 2021 or will sit the exam in July 2021," he said. "In addition ...

FASEA approves two degrees

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
The Financial Advisers Ethics and Standards Authority has added two degrees to its approved list of courses. Any bachelor's degree with a major in financial services that commenced from March 2021 at Southern Cross University has been given FASEA's ...
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