Financial planners and other financial services providers who sell products over the phone or in other ‘time critical’ situations have had their compliance burden reduced...
MLC has appointed Susan Gosling as general manager of its implemented consulting division as part of the group’s ongoing strategy to strengthen its consulting capabilitie...
Pengana Capital and Barclays Global Investors are both stepping up their dealer group and platform focus with the appointment of a national distribution manager and a na...
Many financial planners are defining their target markets in the wrong way. Carolyn Stafford looks at how this can be turned around....
Helping your clients get what they need requires a team effort from you and a host of other professionals, says Jennie Murray....
Australian Unity director and head of funds management John Linehan is set to leave the group in mid-September, to be replaced by a yet-to-be-named successor who will be ...
Ipac-owned fledgling dealer group, Monere Financial Planning, has hired former Garrisons senior staffer Colin Williams to spearhead a recruitment drive to attract planner...
Morningstar and its former chief executive Graham Rich are one step closer to a potential courtroom showdown after the NSW Supreme Court rejected two claims by the resear...
AMP director of advice-based distribution Steve Helmich will stand down as Financial Planning Association chairman, making way for chair-elect Kathryn Greiner - the first...
Advisers are looking for simple software, but their needs are often more sophisticated, writes John Wilkinson....
The perfect financial planning software will do just about everything, except make the coffee. But even with rapid development we’re not quite there yet, as Freya Purnell...
Just when you think you understand how to comply with the terms of your Australian Financial Services Licence, Batch 8 dollar disclosure arrives, writes Paula Zammit....
Aurora is heading into new territory with its focus on the risk and superannuation advice market. Rebecca Evans reports....
Madison Financial Group may be smaller in adviser numbers, but bigger is not always better as Ross Kelly discovers....
BT Financial Group has delivered the strongest indication to date it plans to launch a new dealer group, with the Westpac Bank-owned fund manager signing-up former Retire...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...