Advisers not listening to regulation messages: Frampton

ETITO manager of corporate relations and strategy Michael Frampton says ETITO made it "abundantly clear" last month that those advisers who wished to be certain that they had access to examinations and assessment in time for the authorisation deadline, had to be booked by October 29.

Last month only 1,843 advisers had registered with ETITO, and of those, 1,452 advisers had activated their registrations. This has now increased to 3,030 registrations with 2,153 being made active.

Only 178 advisers last month had made an assessment reservation for a Standard Set B examination and this has now increased to 564. Just 40 had registered for assessment against the requirements of Standard Set C and now 109 have made bookings.

Frampton says these numbers show a noticeable increase in advisers being prepared but ETITO is concerned that there will still be many advisers who will experience difficulty in accessing assessments and examinations in the first half of next year.