DEALER GROUP

Editorial

The group's latest financial results reveal the extent to which the company suffered during the financial crisis....

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Financial planning

Advisers have found in recent years that when it comes to legal matters, the buck stops with them. But are dealer groups being held accountable for their role?...

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Financial planning

Sentry extends van Eyk relationship with three-year agreement....

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Financial planning

Dealer group AFS is still focused on floating on the ASX but the target date is now in 2013....

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Financial planning

One of Australia's few remaining large, non-institutionally owned advice groups is courting four potential institutional equity partners or owners....

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Financial planning

Dealer group Millennium3 won a recent court case against one of its former authorised representatives, Avoca Consultants, which it ejected after it failed to meet the gro...

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Financial planning

Countplus investee Lawrence Business Management (LBM) has acquired the accounting and financial planning assets of Lena Hilton (LH)....

Financial planning

It’s a competitive market out there in the acquisitions space as dealer groups compete to build scale. But as JAYSON FORREST discovered, Financial Services Partners belie...

Financial planning

Two former Infocus Money Management authorised representatives from Western Australia are currently the subjects of an ASIC investigation....

Financial planning

Adviser-owned Australian Financial Services (AFS) is to raise the lower limits of the size of practices it will work with as it seeks to build a more sustainable dealer g...

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Editorial

Many financial planners now use model portfolios to assist in the complex task of managing their clients’ wealth. But is a model portfolio the best option, and what are t...

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Financial planning

Paying planner entitlements from fund managers and life insurers on a daily basis is proving a successful method of attracting new planners to dealer group Synchron, espe...

Financial planning

Software companies need to start considering how to help advisers market their knowledge to potential clients....

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Financial planning

Dealer groups can play a key role in ensuring better practice in governance and accountability of member firms though their BDMs, according to Graham Peatey, managing dir...

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Financial planning

Some financial planning companies and dealer groups may have opted to develop their own planning software, but Money Management research reveals this is proving no threat...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months 2 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months 2 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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