IT IS easy to see both sides of the argument in what could quickly escalate into a full blown legal dispute between the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Assoc...
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and the Financial Planning Association (FPA) are set to clash after the AFA indicated that as part of its move to secure a des...
Job advertisements ask for all the same criteria – loads of planning experience, DFP or CFP qualifications and good communication skills. But what skills and talents are ...
Four years and 50 columns ago, TOM COLLINS first graced the pages of Money Management. Retracing his steps has led him to conclude that not too much has changed....
Circumstances have made a Melbourne planning office become a model for the future. JOHN WILKINSON reports....
The Financial Planning Week national call centre has become a central awareness campaign for both the financial planning industry and the public alike....
The financial planner of the future will be a true service provider, outsourcing non-core activities to specialise in areas of expertise. NICOLE SZOLLOS talks to three pl...
Australia is one of the largest managed funds markets in the world and has been growing quickly for 20 years....
The key to future financial planning groups will be selling the relationship, not what platforms the dealer group is using, says Strategic Consulting and Training managin...
It’s never too late when it comes to succession management. As FIONA MOORE reports, planners are advised to put a strategy in place at least 10-15 years before they plan ...
Former Financial Planning Association (FPA) chairman Ray Griffin has become the first non-American financial planner to be elected chairman of the International Certfied ...
AMP’s wholly owned external financial planning dealer group, Hillross Financial, has today launched an ambitious recruitment drive in an effort to double the number of it...
Following the restructuring of its business six months earlier, Deakin Financial Services Group is now spreading its wings and going national as a company focussed on a s...
Very few people in the industry would have failed to notice the push to higher education standards that have been going on in recent years, especially after it received a...
Over the last few years I’ve noticed that industry commentators are focussing on the issue of so called “independence” of advice and then drawing the conclusion that this...
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,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...