CPD

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) helps you grow your knowledge and skills, stay compliant, and advance your career. ASFA offers a wide range of activities to support your CPD needs.

CPD activities and points

To find how which ASFA activities provide you with CPD points, and how many, see our CPD table.

CPD reports

ASFA members can view a report listing all CPD activities successfully completed with ASFA, and the associated points by logging in to their ASFA account.

Once logged in, navigate to “My CPD” to run a CPD report.

SuperCPD

ASFA’s online CPD solution keeps you up to date with the latest industry developments. SuperCPD offers you the opportunity to earn at least 20 CPD points a year, making it easier to maintain your compliance.

Activity CPD Points Duration Delivery Mode
Subscription
SuperCPD 1 point per assessment topic (minimum 20 points per year offered) Annual subscription, released quarterly Online
SuperCPD Trustee 1 point per assessment topic (minimum 20 points per year offered) Annual subscription, released quarterly Online
SuperReg 1 point per assessment topic (minimum 10 points per year offered) Annual subscription, topics released 10 times each year Online
ASFA Learning courses
RG 146 Superannuation 20 Up to 6 months Online or virtual workshop or face to face workshop
RG 146 Superannuation Refresher 4 Up to 3 months Online or virtual workshop or face to face workshop
General Advice Skills Program 6 Up to 3 months Online
Factual information vs financial product advice 1 Up to 6 weeks Online
Super Essentials 3.5 Up to 3 months Online or virtual workshop
Superannuation Governance Masterclass 3 Half-day Public or corporate workshop
Super Professional 1 1-hour Virtual workshop
FNS40920 Certificate IV in Superannuation 24 Up to 12 months Online
Benefit Essentials 2 Up to 6 weeks Online
Claims Handling Essentials 1 Up to 6 weeks Online
Death Benefits Claims Handling Essentials 1 Up to 6 weeks Online
Contributions Essentials 2 Up to 6 weeks Online
Internal Dispute Resolution Essentials 1 Up to 6 weeks Online
Insurance Essentials 1 Up to 6 weeks Online
Retirement Essentials 2 Up to 6 weeks Online
Investment Essentials 2 Up to 6 weeks Online
Events
ASFA Conference Up to 16 points 3 days Conference
ASFA Briefing, such as: Budget Lunch 1 per session with technical content 1 – 1.5 hours Virtual or face to face event
ASFA Seminar 4 points Half-day Virtual or face to face event
ASFA Forum 8 points 1 day Virtual or face to face event
ASFA Discussion Group 1 point per meeting 1 – 1.5 hours Virtual or face to face event
Industry consultation
ASFA Committee Meeting/Working Group (excluding Board committees) 1 point (maximum 10 per year) 1 – 1.5 hours Virtual or face to face or dial in meeting
Technical authoring, such as: Superfunds article 3 per article Email

Carmen Beverley-Smith

Executive Director - Superannuation, Life & Private Health Insurance, APRA

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Carmen joined APRA in March 2023 and holds the role of Executive Director, Life and Private Health Insurance and Superannuation.  

She has had an esteemed career in financial services, spanning over 25 years. She has held diverse leadership roles at Westpac and Commonwealth Bank of Australia, including across risk, transformation and change, product and portfolio development, and sales and service. 

Prior to joining APRA, she held the role of General Manager, Risk Transformation Delivery Integration at Westpac. This involved leading the group-wide implementation of a suite of solutions to uplift risk management capability and develop data, analytics and reporting. 

Carmen leads with a values-driven approach and a particular interest in developing and mentoring talent. 

She holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Accounting, is a certified Chartered Accountant and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. 

Amy C. Edmondson

Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of society.

Edmondson has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and most recently was ranked #1 in 2021 and 2023; she also received that organization’s Breakthrough Idea Award in 2019, and Talent Award in 2017.  She studies teaming, psychological safety, and organisational learning, and her articles have been published in numerous academic and management outlets, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and California Management Review. Her 2019 book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth (Wiley), has been translated into 15 languages. Her prior books – Teaming: How organizations learn, innovate and compete in the knowledge economy (Jossey-Bass, 2012), Teaming to Innovate (Jossey-Bass, 2013) and Extreme Teaming (Emerald, 2017) – explore teamwork in dynamic organisational environments. In Building the future: Big teaming for audacious innovation (Berrett-Koehler, 2016), she examines the challenges and opportunities of teaming across industries to build smart cities. 

Edmondson’s latest book, Right Kind of Wrong (Atria), builds on her prior work on psychological safety and teaming to provide a framework for thinking about, discussing, and practicing the science of failing well. First published in the US and the UK in September, 2023, the book is due to be translated into 24 additional languages, and was selected for the Financial Times and Schroders Best Business Book of the Year award.

Before her academic career, she was Director of Research at Pecos River Learning Centers, where she worked on transformational change in large companies. In the early 1980s, she worked as Chief Engineer for architect/inventor Buckminster Fuller, and her book A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller (Birkauser Boston, 1987) clarifies Fuller’s mathematical contributions for a non-technical audience. Edmondson received her PhD in organisational behavior, AM in psychology, and AB in engineering and design from Harvard University.

 

Daniel Mulino MP

Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Born in Brindisi, Italy, Daniel was a young child when he moved with his family to Australia. He grew up in Canberra and completed his first degrees – arts and law – at the ANU. He then completed a Master of Economics (University of Sydney) and a PhD in economics from Yale.

He lectured at Monash University, was an economic adviser in the Gillard government and was a Victorian MP from 2014 to 2018. As Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer of Victoria, Daniel helped deliver major infrastructure projects and developed innovative financing structures for community projects.

In 2018 he was preselected for the new federal seat of Fraser and became its first MP at the 2019 election, re-elected in 2022 and 2025. From 2022 to 2025, Daniel was chair of the House of Representatives’ Standing Economics Committee in which he chaired inquiries; economic dynamism, competition and business formation and insurers’ responses to 2022 major floods claims.

In 2025, he became the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services.

In August 2022, Daniel published ‘Safety Net: The Future of Welfare in Australia’, which aims to explore the ways in which an insurance approach can improve the effectiveness of government service delivery.