Financial Planners will face tougher conduct guidelines after a new code of practice was issued today, raising the bar on disclosure and urging advisers to give up commis...

Financial Planners today are happier with the level of service provided by their dealership. More specifically, they are happier with the amount of professional indemnity...

It may be a job to most people, but business development is clearly a labour of love for Natasha Williams....

The country’s largest dealer groups lost the most financial planners in 2004 and according to most of them, Financial Services Reform was to blame....

The financial planning arm of the HSBC bank has signed the Aviva-owned Navigator master trust as one of only three preferred platforms for its advisers....

A new set of guidelines on conflicts of interest which will impose tougher requirements on advisers than those introduced by the Australian Securities and Investment Comm...

Almost a year since the introduction of the Financial Services Reform, the majority of financial advisers still believe that sorting out practice management issues will b...

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) would back a push to enshrine its code of conduct on soft dollar payments into legislation - a move that would make the code comp...

Count Financial has bought the planning software already used by most of its advisers, Interact, from IOOF Investment Management after the latter opted to sell the packag...

Findings recently released by AXA Australia and Dexx&r into the level of under-insurance in Australia reveal that Australian women are chronically under-insured....

Controversy over soft dollar payments and conflicts of interest are threatening the financial planning industry. Money Management invited some of the industry’s leaders t...

Financial planning through banks has been regarded as unsophisticated, product-focused and entry level. But, as Jason Spits discovered, the banks are working hard to over...

AXA Australia’s re-run of its Discovery program - a client-list buy back scheme that ran for several weeks in 2003 - has netted 35 new planners and involving some 100,000...

A new television advertising campaign by Colonial First State that pokes fun at industry fees and service levels has left some financial advisers less than amused....