Queensland-based Fitzpatricks Financial Planning is looking to aggressively grow its fledgling financial planning business consultancy, HeadSpace, which is targeting plan...
The Australian Consumers’ Association (ACA) has hit out at the funds management and financial planning industry in Australia, stating it is “characterised by structural c...
A Brisbane practice has boosted its earnings by about 35 per cent after undertaking a six-month business coaching program and business improvement initiatives. John Wilki...
The funds management industry has come under further attack with more leading industry commentators slamming fund products they claim are being designed for a small profi...
While the push towards fees continues, the reality is that planners still rely heavily on commission-based advice. Freya Purnell reports....
Advisers in AXA dealer groups will no longer have a remuneration bias to recommend AXA’s own funds management products under a raft of changes to the group’s fee model an...
Advisers using a fee-for-service model of financial planning remuneration could face increased professional indemnity (PI) insurance burdens, according to prominent plann...
What do advisers think of choice of fund legislation? And how do they think it will impact on their business? Julie Bennett reports....
Sealcorp-owned advisory groups Securitor and Pact will rebate 100 per cent of client fees paid by cheque to the groups back to advisers, creating a fee for service model ...
If we thought we had problems in Australia, they pale in comparison to those besetting the financial planning industry in Canada. Julie Bennett and Lucie Beaman report....
The corporate superannuation market might be shrinking but opportunities for advisers still abound. Craig Phillips reports....
As market conditions continue to fluctuate and financial planners feel the pressure, a positioning strategy paves the way for strong growth. Chris Dionne talks to Melinda...
Three major industry groups have called for changes to the taxation arrangements for the provision of financial advice in submissions to the Senate Select Committee on Su...
Only one in 10 wealth accumulators between 40 and 50 year old use a financial planner while nine out of 10 in this group use an accountant according to Ipac chief executi...
Centrestone Wealth Management has pushed on with its plans to purchase other planning practices with its first external acquisition, ProVision Financial....
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 ...