Evergreen Consultants has recently expanded its client base to include a number of well-established financial advisory firms across the country....
IOOF has completed its acquisition of ANZ’s aligned dealer groups, while making further arrangements to complete the acquisition of the ANZ One Path Pensions and Investme...
Despite the Royal Commission tainting perceptions of the financial services industry, a panel has told Money Management and Super Review’s Future of Wealth Management con...
Major institutional financial planning groups saw a combined loss of 600 planners this year, according to Money Management’s TOP 100 Financial Planning Groups Survey....
A Federal Parliamentarian has specifically queried why research houses and dealer group investment committees are not held responsible for putting products on an APL whic...
The major banks have confirmed they are still paying millions of dollars a year to external financial planning dealer groups to provide support and education around their...
Dealer group support has seen Lonsec Fiscal regain its mantle in part two of Money Management’s 2016 Rate the Raters survey, Oksana Patron finds....
For the first time Money Management asked the dealer groups in a survey to share their views on the educational requirements for new advisers as well as their expectation...
Most financial planners want definitive ownership of their clients with many only wanting to pay for those dealer group services they actually use....
Dealer groups have been an integral part of the financial planning industry but do they remain relevant in a post-FOFA increasingly technological world?...
Praemium has launched a new SMA solution for Futuro via its subsidiary, Sterling Managed Investments....
The Paul Barrett-led AZ NGA dealer group play has signed up RI Toowoomba, bringing the number of firms now under its umbrella to seven....
ClearView has told the Trowbridge working group it wants the word “commissions” replaced along with the banning of shelf space fees and volume bonuses....
Planners who cannot explain to clients their justification for recommending particular platforms may find themselves in breach of ASIC guidance....
ASIC reinforces signal for licensees to be more discerning when recruiting advisers from failed planning groups....
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....