dealer groups

Financial planning

A lack of consultation around change within dealer groups risks alienating financial planners. ...

Editorial

Planners too must act in own best interests

Mike Taylor explains the writing was on the wall long before the announcement of a number of practices leaving the AFS Group....

Editorial

Fund managers facing their own FOFA challenges

Dealer groups are not the only financial services companies being forced to adapt to the new FOFA environment, with Instreet Investment’s George Lucas explaining that fun...

Financial planning

Dealer groups urged to measure adviser satisfaction

With dealer groups across the industry struggling to retain planners, commentators are urging them to adopt the Net Promoter Score (NPS) system to get a better understand...

Financial planning

How technology is revolutionising planning practice models

Affinia’s Craig Parker discusses how customer centricity is emerging as the new practice business model. ...

Financial planning

Dealer group models facing change

A general consensus has emerged that many dealer groups will have to change commercial models as a result of the new conflicted remuneration rules....

Financial planning

Merged practices struggle to resolve conflicts

The number of merged practices deciding to end their relationships will continue to increase in the months ahead due to the lack of clear conflict resolution arrangements...

Financial planning

Govt should have acted sooner on grandfathering: Batten

Following "somewhat ambiguous" statements on grandfathering in Consultation Paper 189, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is set to release an up...

Editorial

Caveat emptor necessary amid planner churn

With scores of financial planners changing dealer groups, Mike Taylor writes that it is important for those doing the recruiting to undertake the necessary due diligence ...

Policy & Regulation

June 30 to trigger adviser migration

The dawning realisation that grandfathering arrangements may be put in jeopardy is likely to create a spike in the number of planners changing dealer groups before 30 Jun...

Editorial

Does FOFA pose Hobson’s choice?

As planners grapple with how to implement the changes flowing from the FOFA reforms, David Hasib examines the stark choices that many will have to make, including actuall...

Policy & Regulation

FOFA to remain soft-boiled until mid-2014

The implementation of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms looks set to remain "medium soft" until 1 July 2014, according to Shadow Treasurer Mathias Cormann. ...

Financial planning

Sundaram launches planner services offering

Sundaram Business Services has announced a new offering it says is aimed at freeing up financial planners and dealer groups from administrative work....