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Financial planning

The Australian Wealth Advisors Group has made its first equity partnership scheme investment into a Victorian financial planning firm as it forecasts multiple deals ahead...

Financial planning

Advisers are likely to look towards self-registration with the regulator rather than a licensee model in the future, but self-licensing is not without its pitfalls, accor...

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Financial planning

A major dealer group chair has pointed to advisers rather than licensees becoming responsible for professional indemnity cover....

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People & Products

YTML signs Merit Wealth to the Seido platform and adds Helen Thom to head of distribution....

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Financial planning

Wealth management advisory firm, AD Capital Group has announced plans to list this year on the Australian Securities Exchange....

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Financial planning

A background paper on the sale of life/risk products provided to the Royal Commission has suggested life/risk advisers recommend in-house products in return for lower dea...

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People & Products

Fitzpatricks Private Wealth has extended its Melbourne presence with two new businesses aligning with the dealer group....

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Financial planning

ASIC has concluded monitoring dealer group, Lionsgate Financial Group after it imposed additional conditions on the firm’s AFSL in 2013 for failure to ensure its advisers...

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Top 100

Despite the controversies and challenges, the absolute size of the Australian financial planning industry has remained relatively stable, according to Money Management TO...

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Financial planning

A new Money Management survey has revealed that more than half of financial planners don’t believe they are getting value for money from their dealer group and are lookin...

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Financial planning

Former Guardian Advice group, Griffin Financial Services, has joined Fortnum after Suncorp exited its financial planning businesses last year....

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Financial planning

Paul Barrett’s AZ NGA extends footprint via another RI Advice-licensed planning firm, Adelaide’s Bailey Capital Management....

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Editorial

When it comes to taking home the big bucks in the planning industry, it is experience that counts, the Money Management Salary Survey reveals....

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Financial planning

IOOF recruits News Corp executive as new CEO for Shadforth Financial Group....

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Financial planning

Fiducian Group has acquired a Sydney-based advice firm with $85 million in FUA, bringing the group’s total FUA to $1.71 billion....

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