Dealer Management Systems (DMS) has received a major boost with Count Financial signing up for its commission processing system....
Nothing much has changed in the platform market during the past 12 months. The bigger platforms have got bigger, and there has been some rationalisation at the bottom end...
ANZ Financial Planning will be the first dealer group to pilot a new, online client management solution for financial advisers....
Focussing on providing services to the adviser and not the licence holder will be the major focus for the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) in 2006, says president ...
There has been much discussion about the lack of life insurance being taken out by the Australian public. But this pales into almost insignificance when the focus is on r...
The usual ambition of a paraplanner is to become an adviser and Kate Cramsie is no exception....
The launch of the Generic Personal Statement (GPS) for risk advisers and their clients has generated some debate, which I think warrants some commentary....
A potential disadvantage of outsourcing paraplanning is that advisers can come to rely so much on the services of a paraplanning firm, that they abdicate their profession...
It is a problem that everybody knows about, and some have solutions for, yet it will not go away. Australians are not buying risk insurance, and far too-few advisers are ...
Positive investor sentiment towards advisers has increased over the past 12 months, accompanied by a marked improvement in sentiment toward managed investments, according...
If anyone had any doubt about how conflicts of interest, whether real or perceived, are impacting on the image of financial planners, then they only had to listen to a sp...
For Australia’s biggest financial planning dealer groups, managing conflicts is all about ensuring advisers have adequate choice....
Nothing much has changed on Money Management’s list of Top 50 Distributors during the space of the last 12 months....
The evolution of financial planning systems has taken various forms, as the complexity of advisers’ business practices grows. Traditionally, there has been the front-end ...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...