As more dealer groups board the fee-for-advice bandwagon, back-office providers must decide whether to revamp remuneration management systems to accommodate more complex ...

If confirmation of the ‘cleansing’ nature of recent regulatory and legislative changes was needed then this year’s Top 100 Dealer Groups will provide clear evidence with ...

Freya Purnell takes a look at the platform products most favoured by dealer groups in 2004....

Dealers groups are now incorporating research from a range of providers. Lucia Appleby reports....

The Top 50 Distributors is based on data collected for the Money Management Top 100 Dealer Group survey, which was published in June....

For the first time since Money Management began publishing its Top 50 Distributors list, the big players have loosened their stronghold on Australia’s financial advice di...

Freya Purnell looks at the effect of different advice offerings on the bottom line....

IWL has successfully renegotiated its ongoing Visiplan software contracts with two dealer groups - Associated Planners Financial Services (APFS) and Lonsdale Financial Gr...

Affiliated dealer groups FuturePlus and Chifley Financial Services have resolved an ongoing dispute with advisers by withdrawing a 12-page commercial agreement the latter...

Aon Australia has commenced a program to grow its two financial planning arms by leveraging off its strong presence in the small to medium enterprise (SME) market by enco...

The ability of small managers to outperform their larger counterparts is cementing the place of boutique funds in client portfolio construction, but Assirt Research is wa...

Barclays Global Investors Australia has moved swiftly by appointing internal staffer Tim Bradbury to replace its adviser services director Michael Ohlsson, who resigned l...

Financial services technology provider PlanTech Consulting Group has experienced encouraging industry support for its new planning software tool, 4Cast, with four dealer ...

Coin Financial Software’s foray into the financial planning software market is gathering pace with a number of dealer groups signing up to its flagship offering Strategy ...