Companies such as NAB moving towards a fee-for-service model for financial advisers risk losing some of their more entrenched planners with the strongest client relations...
Demands for greater transparency in financial planning is depriving lower income groups of access to financial advice, a leading financial services executive has argued....
MLC-owned financial planning dealer group Godfrey Pembroke has announced it will be moving to a pure fee-for-service model for all of its new clients from October 1, 2006...
While the planning software market appears to have settled down into something akin to trench warfare, there are still some players making forays into open territory....
Following in the footsteps of the FPA, CPA Australia has encouraged the industry to implement an advice-based fee model as remuneration....
MLC has thrown its support behind the type of remuneration offered by the FPA advice-based fee model....
Dealer Management Systems (DMS) has received a major boost with Count Financial signing up for its commission processing system....
The Financial Planning Association’s new conflicts of interest principles do not go far enough to ensure compliant advice, according to Australian Securities and Investme...
ING Australia and its aligned financial planning groups have experienced a growth spurt in planners, but overall financial performance for 2005 was disappointing....
An Adelaide-based wealth management practice has entered a joint venture to launch an online recruitment service, called Jobs.com.au, through which it will source referra...
ANZ Financial Planning will be the first dealer group to pilot a new, online client management solution for financial advisers....
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...