Industry collab offers educational pathway for advice professionals
A collaboration between AccountantsIQ, the Self Managed Super Fund Association (SMSFA) and Deakin University has produced new educational pathways for advice professionals to meet their requirements.
The organisations are launching two new courses that are approved to meet legislated requirements, with Ethics for Financial Services (Intensive) offered at Deakin University and SMSF Specialist Advisor Program offered by the SMSF Association. The courses are set to be delivered online and will provide up to 77 CPD hours for those who undertake them, with bundle pricing options available and an Associate Membership with the SMSF Association also on offer.
Bronny Speed, Founding Director of AccountantsIQ, will spearhead the Deakin University Ethics for Financial Services (Intensive course).
“Given Ethics is a Compulsory Bridging Unit and many still need to complete it, by offering this subject in a practical, structured and intensive format, many advice professionals will benefit,” she said.
“A key takeaway from the FASEA exam is, do not wait until the last minute. This is a practical and time effective solution for advice professionals to remain on the FAR by meeting the ASIC educational requirements well before the 31 December 2025 deadline.”
The Deakin University Ethics for Financial Services (Intensive) course will be delivered over four half days in November, with enrolments closing on 21 October. The SMSF Association’s SMSF Specialist Advisor Program is a 12-week online program that can be completed at one’s own pace.
“The SMSF Association’s SMSF Specialist Advisor program (SSA) remains the pinnacle of specialist SMSF education within the sector, and completion of this course has been recognised as a credit towards meeting these mandatory education requirements,” Peter Burgess, CEO of the SMSF Association, said.
Many highly educated advisers have been forced to purchase new and inferior courses from second rate providers, because the corrupt and incompetent FASEA deemed their original high quality education to be “out of date”.
Given this approach of arbitrary use by dates imposed by corrupt bureaucratic agencies, advisers should wait until the last minute before completing any courses, in order to maximise the “shelf life” of those courses into the future.
This makes me physically sick. The Irony of these organisations here is unbelievable. So quite around FASEA when the money pot was on offer, when well educated Advisers were being forced to go Uni.
FASEA taught us Advisers with Commerce and Business Degrees and Masters Degree’s and other Post Graduate qualifications in Finance to always do the minimum in life.
FASEA told Advisers with extensive short courses exactly like these, they’re a waste of time. I certainly would not be wasting my money on doing just a “course” . These types of study count for squat. I have, like a lot of Advisers, a long list of “intensive four days ” courses because Universities like Deakin failed to offer relevant AQF 7 or above courses for experienced Advisers.
FASEA and Universities like Deakin that remained silent during FASEA, told us just how much they think of short courses, when they failed to support the recognition of CPD in the meaning of a Degree.