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Platforms and wraps have become such an integral part of the financial planning revenue equation that any changes to the regulatory environment are likely to be felt up a...
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Dealer groups are preparing for changes in the financial services industry by looking to platform and fund ownership as a way to take planner and licensee remuneration in...
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The Commonwealth Bank has changed its process for notifying clients of margin calls in response to the Storm Financial debacle, despite acknowledging the intermediary mod...
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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...
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The six largest institutionally-owned dealer groups place an average 73 per cent of their clients' super products with their own parent company, with the top three placin...
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Managing director Greg Kirk has accused rival dealer groups of deliberately trying to destabilise Genesys in order to attract advisers....
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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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Boutiques warned to appropriately differentiate themselves or risk a damaging homogenisation of the financial services industry....
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Dealer groups should actively acquire small struggling member advice firms for the good of the sector rather than allowing the status quo to continue, according to Kenn W...
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ING Australia will outsource the investment research for its aligned dealer groups to external providers in an effort to reduce any perceived conflict of interests betwee...
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In the wake of the global financial crisis the financial software industry remains in a state of upheaval, with innovation relentless, competition fierce and smaller prac...
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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...
Financial planning
Despite dealer groups developing their own software, major software companies control over half the market....
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Three advice firm principals aligned to dealer group Australian Financial Services (AFS) have been placed on suicide watch by the dealer group in the past 12 months. ...
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Regardless of how a practice or dealer group is remunerated, the most important consideration will always be how they receive, manage and disperse their revenue....
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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...