Many financial planning businesses have had to put their growth plans and other projects on hold while preparing for FOFA. Milana Pokrajac looks at opportunities lost....
Money Management has partnered with Tepana Financial Indices to bring you the 2013 Independent and Institutional Dealer Groups of the Year. ...
Planners are already changing their commercial decisions on business acquisitions because of grandfathering issues. ...
The so-called “fifth pillar” of Australia’s banking sector, AMP, now owns the two biggest dealer groups in Australia....
While bank-owned dealer groups aggressively increased their adviser numbers in the last few years, non-aligned financial planning businesses have had to put serious brake...
More than half of advisers in the industry have been approached by one or more dealer group asking them to switch, according to a CoreData survey....
ASIC raises the bar on platform disclosures amid concern at increased platform use by investors not using a planner....
Strategic partnerships between product and service providers and dealer groups appear to be going through a phase of revival with the renewed optimism in the markets....
Financial planning firms operating in-house portfolio construction functions face having to 'FOFA-proof' against looming operational risks embedded in the Future of Finan...
Clients’ objectives being lost amid pandemic of short-termism, according to Money Management roundtable participants....
BT Financial Group extends to 150 the number of funds under capital protection product....
As it has become clearer how much capability is needed to comply with the FOFA reforms, advisers have turned to platforms to do most of heavy lifting. ...
Ben Daly has been appointed as Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s key account manager for New South Wales and Queensland....
ASIC deputy chair Peter Kell has cautioned dealer groups on hiring planners who previously worked for dodgy advice practices....
AllMyFunds Technology has acquired financial services technology provider InvestmentLink in a move to bolster its scaled advice offering....
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....