Writs were served on the three proposed Consolidated Financial Services (CFS) directors just before Christmas, claiming unlimited damages over a number of issues...

Almost a third of the Top 100 dealer groups pay their planners exclusively via a salary, with another 12 dealer groups offering a combination of salaried and con-tract em...

Until today, there has been no in-depth research published on the state of play in the financial business. Money Management commissioned KPI Research to inves-tigate Aust...

One of the most intriguing issues to come out of the Money Management Top 100 survey was the lack of knowledge most dealers have about the key elements of their business ...

The mission by the financial services giants to dominate the financial planning in-dustry is now complete. The Money Management Top 100 dealer group survey has revealed t...

The mission by the financial services giants to dominate the financial planning industry is now complete....

With all the controversy over soft dollar commissions that has been floating around the industry in recent times, many financial planners can be forgiven for being a tad ...

Money Management’s inaugural Top 100 dealer survey has proved what many in the industry have long suspected – that accountants are fast gaining a foothold in the industry...

Lend Lease Financial Services has set its sights on the booming back office mar-ket, with the launch of ThreeSixty....

While others dealer groups have been snapped up by big institutions, Count Wealth Accountants, Australia’s largest independent financial planning group, looks set to floa...

Macquarie Portfolio Services reckons it can sign up 40 financial planning dealer groups to its new wrap service by the end of next year....

Australian financial planning groups have been allocated 64 million shares, or 3 per cent of the shares available, in the Telstra 2 offer....

Three years ago, it was a small blip on the financial planning radar screen. Today, Professional Investment Services is a powerhouse of financial planning and has plans t...

Minimum standards for the training of authorised representatives by licensees and principals released last week are not expected to pose much of a threat to most finan-c...