The 10 largest dealer groups in Australia added 475 advisers during the year to March 31, maintaining their share of advisers in the Top 100 dealer groups at 50 per cent,...

Creating a point of difference from other dealer groups is the reason for the jump in adviser numbers at Australian Financial Services, says chief executive officer Peter...

This marks the seventh year Money Management has produced the Top 100 Dealer Groups Survey and it remains the most extensive report of its type in the industry. The surve...

Rural financial planning group Elders Securities has partnered with MLC, agreeing to replace its own in-house planning systems with ready made versions supplied by the fi...

Is history haunting change in financial planning distribution?...

There are numerous reasons for the success of badged or ‘white label’ wraps, but none more significant than the benefits of scale they offer both the platform providers a...

The platform market has neatly divided itself into two segments — with providers such as Asgard, BT and Navigator in one group, and the other made up of a variety of smal...

Two of the country’s leading boutique financial planning groups, Centrestone Wealth Management and the Berkley Group, are set to merge....

Challenger Financial Services has signalled it is serious about winning over more advisers, confirming that HSBC Asset Management’s head of distribution will join it foll...

The monitoring and supervision of advisers by dealer groups for FSR compliance is “patchy”, according to Tribeca chief operating officer John Prowse....

The arrival of the Financial Services Reform Act in March last year engendered mixed feelings among those working in the financial services industry. At the corporate end...

Community and Corporate Financial Services is one of only a number of dealer groups in the country to use credits unions as a referral base. From its humble beginnings in...

Dealer group Associated Planners Financial Services is certainly living in interesting times. The firm first began its active recruitment drive in 2002, which culminated ...

You would expect big dealer groups to dominate any list of the fastest growing businesses in financial planning where the results - like ours - are based on growth in adv...