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Experience pathway consultation opens

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2023
... financial advisers and new entrants. Treasury Laws Amendment (Measures for Consultation) Bill 2023: Financial Adviser Standards states that an adviser with 10 years of cumulative experience providing advice between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2021 ...

Rowe joins Kofkin Bond & Co

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2023
... Planning Association of Australia, and of its Future2 Foundation, and was appointed a director of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority. He has also sat on the Financial Planning Standards Board for four years. He also has close to two ...

Code of Ethics must be fixed: Phil Anderson

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2022
... its 2019 implementation and remains the case now. The Code of Ethics, developed by the now dissolved Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority (FASEA), remains a stone in the shoe for many advisers, Anderson said. Anderson said there is much about ...

May exam sees 43% pass rate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2022
... sitting was just the second time the exam has been administered by ASIC following the dissolution of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority in December last year.

Rate rise exposes adviser knowledge gap

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2022
... advisers dealt with increased education requirements, industry consensus was that the government and the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority didn't place enough value on on-the-job experience. The present economic climate stands to prove ...

ASIC releases latest adviser exam results

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2022
... time. This was the first time the exam had been administered by ASIC following the dissolution of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority at the end of 2021. ASIC said close to 20,000 candidates have sat the exam to date, with 91% passing. ...

ASIC sets adviser exam dates

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2022
... the lowest pass rate on record. The exam, which were the last to be administered by the now-defunct Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority, saw 52% of the 2129 advisers successfully pass. ASIC took over FASEA's remit on January 1. The pass ...

Education reforms are promising: SAFAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2022
... roll back or lower education standards" for financial advisers. The SAFAA slammed the now-defunct Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority, describing it as a "bureaucracy that was averse to stakeholder engagement" and narrowed the scope of recognised ...

FASEA defers Standard 3 amendment to ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 DEC 2021
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority is deferring the amendments to Standard 3 to ASIC because the industry could not agree on a better alternative. FASEA floated the idea of amending Standard 3 in November, which currently states: "You ...

February 2022 adviser exam dates released

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 DEC 2021
... Australian Council for Educational Research, which also facilitated the exam administration for the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority, which shuts down on December 31. "We are working with ACER to finalise Sitting 17, Sitting 18, and Sitting ...
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