March 2, 2020 19:43
For the advice industry to graduate to professional status in the eyes of lawmakers, clients and the broader community, it needs to move on from its tick-a-box approach to compliance and take on a higher-level principals approach to considering ethical situations. Richard Jackson points out the broader industry has a responsibility to support advisers to meet their obligations.
Participants: Dr Michelle Cull, Richard Jackson
Facilitator: Matthew Smith
Length: 39 mins, 2 seconds
Reading the Code of Ethics will require another level of thinking from advisers if practitioners are still getting hung up on being prescriptive about certain aspects of the Code of Ethics, Dr Simon Longstaff explains. David Graham empathises with advisers in more corporatised structures than his own but suggests all advisers need to stand up for what they believe is right.
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