{"id":56874,"date":"2021-07-29T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T05:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=56874"},"modified":"2021-07-29T15:28:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T05:28:32","slug":"new-partnership-to-support-financial-adviser-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2021\/07\/29\/new-partnership-to-support-financial-adviser-education\/","title":{"rendered":"New Partnership to Support Financial Adviser Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAL and Deakin University have established an education partnership through TAL\u2019s financial adviser education program which is designed to assist and support advisers with their obligation to meet the FASEA education requirements.<\/p>\n<p>TAL General Manager, Retail Distribution, <strong>Niall McConville<\/strong>, says in a statement that the partnership combines the learning resources of the TAL Risk Academy with the academic expertise of Deakin University\u2019s Financial Planning arm.<\/p>\n<p>He says this will give advisers &#8220;&#8230;a more flexible and cost-effective education pathway to meet their FASEA education requirements and gain a qualification from one of Australia\u2019s leading universities\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51736\" style=\"width: 151px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/08\/Niall-McConville-e1597981283637.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-51736\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/08\/Niall-McConville-e1597981283637-248x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/08\/Niall-McConville-e1597981283637-248x300.jpeg 248w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/08\/Niall-McConville-e1597981283637-347x420.jpeg 347w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/08\/Niall-McConville-e1597981283637.jpeg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Niall McConville.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The insurer states that financial advisers who complete three modules and assessment tasks through the TAL Risk Academy will be provided with a credit into Deakin University\u2019s FASEA-approved postgraduate financial planning courses.<\/p>\n<p>It says the unit credit available is for the Estate Planning and Risk Management Strategies unit (MAA700) and notes the modules and assessment tasks undertaken through the academy can be completed online to allow for learning flexibility for financial advisers in terms of where, when and the pace of study.<\/p>\n<p>It adds that Deakin University will offer those financial advisers applying for the courses through the academy a 15 percent discount on the cost of the courses and unit tuition fees.<\/p>\n<p>The statement notes that in addition to this partnership, the TAL Risk Academy has updated its support with a new version of the award-winning FASEA Exam Masterclass. TAL is encouraging advisers yet to complete the FASEA exam to register for an August virtual masterclass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/adviser.tal.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> for more information about the partnership or to enrol in the courses via the TAL Risk Academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAL and Deakin University have established an education partnership through TAL\u2019s financial adviser education program which is designed to assist and support advisers with their obligation to meet the FASEA education requirements. TAL General Manager, Retail Distribution, Niall McConville, says in a statement that the partnership combines the learning resources of the TAL Risk Academy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":56878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,6994],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-company-news","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}