The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has admitted that its membership base suffers serious weaknesses in the key areas of disclosure, training, risk management and ad...
Pauline Vamos is pleased to have won the title of most influential person of the year in financial services - not so much for herself, but because she represents the Aust...
CHIEF executive officer of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), Ken Breakspear, has twice won a place on Money Management’s list of Most Influential people....
RAISING industry standards and ensuring the full representation of all members are two of the key issues to be tackled by new board members of the Financial Planning Asso...
You might have been forgiven for thinking that with all the whip cracking, boot scooting and Stetson hats on show at this year’s fifth Queensland State Conference, you we...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has handed out another sentence in relation to the Lifestyle Property Group, a failed property investment grou...
Australia’s major industry associations have welcomed the Government’s push to give regulators sweeping new powers to police the $520 billion superannuation industry with...
The Deakin Financial Services dealer group will launch its own wrap service early next year after revealing today that it had signed off on the development of the new pla...
Midstreet Technology, which bought the Wealthpoint platform from Sealcorp this week, will be revamping and relaunching the web-based technology platform....
BRIDGES Personal Investment Services has signalled that it will be pursuing a major growth strategy over the next 18 months, aiming to build its planner numbers to 200, w...
To gear or not to gear, that is the question. PRUE MOODIE and JOHN WILKINSON went in search of some answers....
With an influx of new players into financial planning, NICK BRUINING reckons its time to check the definitions of some well-known industry terms, just to put the newcomer...
The business management and operating capability of Absolute Capital Limited (ACL) has been assessed as “competent” by research house Assirt....
ROYAL & Sun Alliance (R&SA) gave birth to Guardian Financial Services in November 2001. Not yet 12 months old, the group has already attracted 98 planners and has plans t...
The make up of professionals filling the rungs of the Top 100 ladder are changing. JULIE BENNETT investigates exactly who is in the financial planning mix of 2002....
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...