DEALER GROUP

Financial planning

ASIC ordered AAA planners to be covered by the dealer group’s PI insurance policy until 29 January, 2014....

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Financial planning

The FPA is investigating claims made by dealer group AAA Shares about its affilliation with the FPA and the CFP status of some of its planners....

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Financial planning

ASIC Commissioner Peter Kell said dealer group AAA Financial Intelligence had an “appalling record” when it comes to ensuring the advice provided was fair and honest....

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Financial planning

Global debt finance specialist Bibby Financial Services has appointed Mark Cleaver as the company’s managing director for Australia and New Zealand....

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Financial planning

After 12 months of inertia, many planners are finally making some tough decisions about the way they run their businesses, says My Dealer Group principal Anne Fuchs....

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People & Products

Centric Wealth has named Celia Carroll as the dealer group's new state manager for Victoria. ...

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Financial planning

Planners and other key stakeholders with Australian Financial Services (AFS) have held a series of meetings over the past two weeks to consider the future of the dealer g...

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Financial planning

Many licensees are putting up "road barriers" to prevent their authorised representatives leaving for another dealer group, says Synchron director Don Trapnell....

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Editorial

The launch of a national curriculum for financial planning degrees by the Financial Planning Education Council was a major win for the industry in 2012....

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Editorial

Plan B's Andrew Black could be forgiven for thinking he is being followed by IOOF in the wake of its acquisition of the dealer group....

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Financial planning

TAL Australia has announced the launch of Affinia, a new risk-specialist dealer group....

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Financial planning

Premium Wealth Management has added Boston Private Wealth to its dealer group, the third Queensland-based practice to join the group this year....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that codes of conduct are only effective when those who sign up genuinely appreciate the consequences that follow a breach....

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Financial planning

Rapid growth of some financial services licensees has caused regulator concern due to many of them lacking support systems for larger numbers of advisers....

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Policy & Regulation

There is no reason why the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) should not approve a code of conduct for a single licensee or dealer group, says Minter...

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