The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has appointed Coin Software and van Eyk Research as part of its extensive advice model review....
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has snared former MLC strategist - Marc Herrmannsen - to head-up its ongoing group-wide advice project and assist in formulating a new ...
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 ...
IWL has successfully renegotiated its ongoing Visiplan software contracts with two dealer groups - Associated Planners Financial Services (APFS) and Lonsdale Financial Gr...
Almost two thirds of baby boomers do not have financial plans or have a financial planner with nine out of 10 confident of their own financial knowledge according to a su...
Two senior executives at Financial Wisdom, national manager Brian Dau and Victorian state manager, Theo Christopoulof have broken ranks to establish their own boutique de...
While the ACA/ASIC Quality of Advice survey may have come as no surprise to the FPA, the planning industry is still reeling from the fallout, as JULIE BENNETT reports....
Work undertaken in recent years is paying off for Commonwealth Financial Planning, says executive general manager Brett Himbury, with the bank-based group topping this ye...
IWL has struck a deal to fully acquire the equities settlement firm Australian Clearing Services following the technology group’s 100 per cent purchase of the latter’s pa...
IWL will roll out its latest VisiPlan offering - version six - over the next few weeks following significant enhancements in terms of straight through processing capabili...
Westpac financial planning head, Scott Walters departed from the group on Friday after less than a year in the role, with his responsibilities passing in the interim to B...
The Commonwealth Bank has enacted a series of changes within the Financial Wisdom dealer group including the waiving of new license fees, expanded recommended list and th...
Careful and considered planning has cleared the road ahead for Royal Automobile Club of Victoria Financial Services, says John Wilkinson....
While the push towards fees continues, the reality is that planners still rely heavily on commission-based advice. Freya Purnell reports....
The financial planning arm of the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) is developing an “adviser academy” which it hopes will raise the standard of its advice business and attract a f...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...