The Academy of Financial Services (AFS) is excited to be collaborating with FPA to provide an "integrated conference experience" for AFS members this year. The AFS research conference will run for the full 2.5 days of the FPA Conference as part of a dedicated research track bringing the best of AFS and the Journal of Financial Planning (JFP) to you.
- A dedicated Research Room for presentations designed to bring the most relevant research impacting professional financial planners. This includes research sessions sponsored by the JFP and peer-reviewed research papers presented by AFS members. These sessions are CE credit approved.
- The winner of the JFP's Montgomery-Warschauer Award for best research from the prior year will present their research.
- In the Research Room AFS will coordinate other research content such as a panel discussion with the editors of the 4 major FP research journals explaining to planners and academics the type of research content to be found, how to best consume/digest research and apply it to a FP practice and more.
- A new FP Research Shark Tank. Based on the format of the popular TV series a select number of researchers will do 5 minute "pitches" on research that they believe would be significantly impactful for practitioners. Planners and researchers will then vote on the most exciting research proposal.
- AFS are co-ordinating 2 additional mini-breakout research rooms where researchers will present additional peer-reviewed, unpublished research selected from the many submissions we received. A timetable of these sessions can be found below.
- AFS will manage the research rooms for fully-hybrid attendance with face-to-face or virtual attendance. Although the content will be exceptional, we hope to see many of you in person as the networking, exhibit hall, FPA keynote speakers and other sessions outside of the research cannot be experienced any other way.
Beyond box-ticking: An examination of ethics-related continuous professional development for financial advisers
Short Description
The paper presents findings from a survey of 295 financial advisers about their experiences of ethics education delivered as continuing professional development (CPD) and provides recommendations for future CPD. Findings suggest there is a need for a greater range of financial advice areas to be covered in ethics CPD and that the quality of CPD could be improved by utilising case studies and real-life examples that are directly and immediately applicable to financial advice. Findings also highlighted that time pressures placed on advisers acted as a barrier in engaging in more interactive workshops. This research is the first of its kind to address CPD education for financial advisers in Australia. With legislation requiring advisers to complete a minimum of nine hours of CPD in ethics every year, this study proves valuable in highlighting gaps in CPD ethics education for financial advisers and proposes a way forward to close these gaps.