If the Government wants the industry to pay for a compensation scheme of last resort then it needs to review and remove many other regulatory costs, starting with profess...
Count Financial continues to be active in recruiting advice firms from both the MLC and IOOF licenses....
Henry Cai has been appointed as the firm’s new licensee systems training and support manager....
Countplus has declared to the market that it has been sufficiently indemnified by the Commonwealth Bank against the growing remediation costs of Count Financial....
A number of Godfrey Pembroke firms may be moving as a group to the new IOOF licenses but another significant firm has chosen to go its own way by joining Count Financial....
There is no lack of competition between licensees to attract good financial planning businesses, but Mike Taylor writes, the days of the deep pockets of the big banks are...
In a significant shift amid the transition of advice firms from MLC Wealth to IOOF a key Godfrey Pembroke firm, Ascent Private Wealth has opted to break ranks and move to...
Brisbane-based Cooper Reeves has completed a tuck-in acquisition of CBD Wealth, which are both member firms of CountPlus....
Count Financial has announced that Sydney-based advice practice Small & Gunn has joined the group. ...
Breaches of the Future of Financial Advice rules will sit at the centre of class actions being formulated against the Commonwealth Bank, AMP and Westpac and a number of t...
Count Financial has appointed Chris Burton as practice development manager as the business reaffirms its commitment to growth. ...
Mike Taylor writes that timing is everything and that while Westpac and ANZ have largely cleared their books of their wealth management businesses, the Commonwealth Bank ...
Phil Creswell has been appointed head of professional standards by Count Financial....
The new technology integrations will improve the back-end operations across its myprosperity, Astute Wheel, Padua Sorrento, Moneysoft and Iress platforms. ...
Affinitas Financial Planning is now Count Financial’s newest corporate authorised representative....
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...