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CPD: The ethical consequences of inappropriate advice
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) has opened a consultation into how it determines compensation for complaints involving financial advisers. A week or two before that announcement was made, AFCA’s [...]
CPD: Financial Advice Regulatory Digest – through a consumer protection lens
Introduction Along with disclosure, financial literacy, and financial advice, financial services regulation is one of the four accepted pillars of financial consumer protection[1]. Staying abreast – and ideally ahead – [...]
CPD: The investment case for global smaller companies
Financial advisers have long understood the benefits of adding an Australian small cap exposure to a client’s diversified portfolio. Those same benefits apply to global small caps – and on [...]
Ethics CPD
CPD: The ethical consequences of inappropriate advice
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) has opened a consultation into how it determines compensation for complaints involving financial advisers. A week or two before that announcement was made, AFCA’s [...]
CPD: Ethics - The many shades of grey
The financial adviser Code of Ethics seeks to impose ethical duties that go above the requirements of the law. While the law may be clear, any aspect that is open [...]
AdviserVoice/Zurich Risk CPD
CPD: Adviser briefing - the future of client-centric life underwriting
Introduction Underwriting is a foundational element of life insurance. By ensuring lives are admitted to the life insurance pool at the price and terms that accurately reflects their risk, life [...]
CPD: Responsible underwriting 2.0, creating trust, affordability, and claims confidence
Introducing responsible underwriting 2.0 When viewed from a technical perspective, it is tempting to characterise life insurance as revolving almost entirely around the interplay between product design, pricing, underwriting and [...]