DEALER GROUP

Financial planning

Lawyers target planners as ASIC says PI is a risk management tool rather than a consumer protection mechanism....

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Editorial

Milana Pokrajac takes a look at the troubled dealer group WealthSure, its history and its plan to change what the regulator deemed a bad compliance culture. ...

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Financial planning

AMP-owned dealer group Hillross Financial Services signed seven new practices to its licence and welcomed 11 start-up firms in the last year, adding another $1 billion in...

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Financial planning

Paul Derham draws on extensive recent research to provides tips to help financial planners sail through their next licensee compliance audit. ...

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Financial planning

Count Financial’s David Lane expresses concern at the undisclosed nature of payments used to lure planners....

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Financial planning

ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from WA-based dealer group WealthSure, with former CEO Darren Pawski banned from the industry....

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Editorial

Planning acquisitions and platform restructure set scene for future performance....

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Funds management

Morningstar has been named the Money Management Research House of the Year, wresting the title from Lonsec which had won it for the past several years....

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Financial planning

An Investment Trends survey conducted two months before FOFA came into effect revealed only 23 per cent of financial planners felt ready....

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Financial planning

A technical issue which prompted AFS Group not to establish a trust account via which it could remunerate authorised representatives has ended up denying those planners t...

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Financial planning

AFA calls for clarity after Court rules brokerage account not reserved for advisers....

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Financial planning

Dealer group recruitment is mostly frozen until after the Federal Election when grandfathering can be clarified. ...

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Financial planning

Industry body Boutique Financial Planners has called for clear disclosure of licensee ownership after Roy Morgan research revealed a large percentage of consumers were no...

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Financial planning

Planning companies willing to acquire licences may be able to secure grandfathering arrangements. ...

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Financial planning

Former Apogee head says the traditional model of a risk-focussed dealer group is not sustainable in the post-FOFA era. ...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

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increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...

3 weeks 6 days ago

Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

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Professional services group AZ NGA has made its first acquisition since announcing a $240 million strategic partnership with US manager Oaktree Capital Management in Sept...

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