Everyday Ethics for Financial Advisers: A Guide for the Ethical Professional

ETHICS IS AT THE CENTRE OF BEING HUMAN Every day, and in every client interaction, financial advisers face ethical decisions. In whose best interests are you operating in? Are you recommending the best investment for your client? Do you know enough about your client’s situation to be giving this advice? Everyday Ethics for Financial Advisers is a complete guide to the FASEA Financial Planners and Advisers Code of Ethics 2019. It offers a comprehensive guide to the 5 Values and 12 Standards of the Code and outlines frameworks to help advisers apply them in their dealings with clients. This practical guide for Australian financial advisers offers ethical decision making frameworks and practice case studies based on the five values and 12 standards of the Financial Planners and Advisers Code of Ethics 2019. Everyday Ethics for Financial Advisers is a handbook intended to be a long term companion as you develop your ethical muscle throughout your career as a financial adviser. This essential text has been written for lecturers and students to fulfil the curriculum requirements for FASEA’s Ethics and Professionalism Bridging Course and FASEA’s National Financial Planning Curriculum. Dr Simon Longstaff has been Executive Director of The Ethics Centre for 30 years, working across business, government and society. He has a PhD in philosophy from Cambridge University, is a Fellow of CPA Australia and of the Royal Society of NSW, and an Honorary Professor at ANU National Centre for Indigenous Studies. Simon was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2013. Dr Katherine Hunt is a researcher and lecturer at Griffith University. She has worked as a financial adviser for five years and combines this with her education in Psychology, Finance, Law and Economics to design and implement curriculums which deliver the greatest possible impact. Katherine holds the following qualifications; BPsychSc, B Comm (Financial Planning), Honours in Finance (University Medal), PhD, JP (Qualified). Carolyn Tate spent her first 20 years of working life in the banking industry and the last 18 years as a freelance writer, educator and consultant. She has written four business books and one travel memoir, Unstuck in Provence . She is a founding member of Conscious Capitalism and her company is a Certified B Corporation. Carolyn specialises in researching and writing on subjects that will improve human and planetary conditions such as purpose, leadership, ethics and gender equality. — ISBN13: 9780648724629