When Australian Private Capital’s principal decided a shake-up was in order, all the pieces of the puzzle had to fall into place. John Wilkinson reports....

There is a great deal of focus on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) requirements in regards to statements of advice (SOAs). Complying with the...

With conflicts of interest in the spotlight, receiving payment for services is no simple matter. Zoe Fielding asked Financial Planning Association director Sarah Brennan ...

Snowball Financial has paid $5 million to make two major acquisitions, giving the listed financial planning business exclusive access to 196,000 credit union members with...

Melbourne dealer group Lonsdale Financial Group has proved that Statements of Advice (SOA) do not need to be long and complex, reducing their disclosure documents to just...

There is a degree of confusion by some practitioners in the financial planning and accountancy fields as to the ability of an accountant to give advice to a client of the...

The recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office allowing financial planners to give tax advice has blurred the roles of accountants and advisers even further. In the ...

The Federal Government has named Watson Wyatt as the asset consultant to assist in developing the investment mandates for the Future Fund....

Count Financial has reported a 36 per cent increase in funds under advice for 2004-05, despite a small reduction in its number of franchisees....

Australia’s second largest independent dealer group, Count Financial, has upgraded its profit guidance on the back of what it has described as continued strong growth in ...

Capstone Financial Planning has targeted New South Wales as the next stage in its growth plans with the dealer group now holding more than $1 billion of funds under advic...

When consultant Pauline Vamos received a copy of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Financial Services Reform Policy Statement 181, she was as much in...

When consultant Pauline Vamos received a copy of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Financial Services Reform (FSR) Policy Statement 181, she was as m...

Four out of every five people who consult a financial planner are satisfied with the advice they receive and most people who avoid seeing a financial planner do so becaus...