ASIC ordered AAA planners to be covered by the dealer group’s PI insurance policy until 29 January, 2014....
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....
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....
Global debt finance specialist Bibby Financial Services has appointed Mark Cleaver as the company’s managing director for Australia and New Zealand....
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....
Centric Wealth has named Celia Carroll as the dealer group's new state manager for Victoria. ...
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...
Many licensees are putting up "road barriers" to prevent their authorised representatives leaving for another dealer group, says Synchron director Don Trapnell....
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....
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....
TAL Australia has announced the launch of Affinia, a new risk-specialist dealer group....
Premium Wealth Management has added Boston Private Wealth to its dealer group, the third Queensland-based practice to join the group this year....
Mike Taylor writes that codes of conduct are only effective when those who sign up genuinely appreciate the consequences that follow a breach....
Rapid growth of some financial services licensees has caused regulator concern due to many of them lacking support systems for larger numbers of advisers....
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...
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...