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Financial planning

Paul Resnik calls on the industry to bring common sense back into financial planning training and practice....

People & Products

Professional Investment Advisory Services (PIAS), the Singaporean arm of Queensland-based dealer group Professional Investment Services (PIS) has relocated chief executiv...

Financial planning

It was five years ago that the Top 100 Dealer Groups research first hit the financial services industry, tracking the changes of a growth industry. Jason Spits looks at t...

Financial planning

Small and medium business owners tend to be too focused on sales and turnover and need guidance on how to derive personal wealth, according to Westpac Banking Corporation...

Life/Risk

Risk advisers will face risks of their own. Col Fullagar outlines how to mitigate those risks....

Financial planning

The hardest thing about implementing a service culture, according to financial adviser Sylvia Dickson from Dickson Bonacci, is defining what a service culture actually is...

Financial planning

Money Management’s inaugural education survey found there are literally hundreds of financial services training courses on ASIC’s training register. Many of these are the...

Financial planning

With all the changes the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) has brought, what do you need in terms of education to become a financial planner? Julie Bennett reports....

Financial planning

In the current financial planning industry, Paul Resnik argues that everyone is unhappy. But don’t worry – he has some solutions....

Financial planning

Financial advisers should make at least two attempts to contact clients in order to ascertain their wishes in relation to personal information when transferring dealer gr...

Superannuation

Even with all the bad news in the market, Ben Abbott reports that it might not be a bad time for clients to retire....

Financial planning

Former Tasmanian financial adviser Mervyn William Mitchell appeared in Hobart Magistrates Court today on 110 charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments ...

Financial planning

The turnaround in Platinum Asset Management’s decision to withdraw its funds from the Macquarie Wrap platform investment menu was not related to fees in any way, says Pla...

Financial planning

Clients may be facing “poorer” and “fragmented” advice on superannuation fund structures under the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) if accountants are unable to give ...

Financial planning

IOOF yesterday launched its Portfolio Services (IPS) platform, a combination of the group’s discontinued MAX and LifeTrack brands, in response to financial adviser and in...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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Insignia Financial has confirmed it is considering a preliminary non-binding proposal received from a US private equity giant to acquire the firm. ...

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Six of the seven listed financial advice licensees have reported positive share price growth in 2024, with AMP and Insignia successfully reversing earlier losses. ...

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Specialist wealth platform provider Mason Stevens has become the latest target of an acquisition as it enters a binding agreement with a leading Sydney-based private equi...

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