Advisers with AM Corporation will receive a part share of the proceeds from the sale of the business to IOOF after former majority owner and found David Smith indicated h...
Fiducian Financial Services will soon launch a financial planning software package, FORCeFP, which will write financial plans meeting all FSRA requirements....
National Wealth Management has confirmed industry speculation that it would strike a deal with IWL to incorporate the latter’s financial planning software package, VisiPl...
The inaugural Business Development Manager (BDM) of the Year Award was hugely popular, with hundreds of readers nominating 98 BDMs for the award. Culling the list to a ma...
Women as a target market is an obvious choice, but, as Jason Spits writes, what sets them apart is what financial advisers should be looking at....
The proposed meeting between a number of small dealer groups in Sydney next month has been postponed after concerns regarding the direction and nature of a proposed natio...
Financial planning company Snowball Group has formed a strategic alliance with independent group Hayes Sterling to represent Snowball in South Australia....
The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services is expected to rule against disclosure of commissions on risk products when it tables its final r...
Small dealer groups are back on the agenda as members of three bodies representing small planning groups have agreed to meet to discuss the creation of a national executi...
An international battle between controllers of the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and Chartered Financial Practitioner (ChFP) designations has erupted in the Asia-Paci...
Psychology is often the biggest obstacle to consistently successful investing, says Gordon Thoms....
Australia’s funds management and life insurance groups are failing to live up to the expectations of financial advisers in key performance criteria, a new report claims....
The Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners (AIOFP) has attacked the Financial Planning Association over its handling of recent industry criticism brought b...
Australia’s chief standards setting organisation, Standards Australia, has weighed into the debate about the quality of financial planning advice by revealing plans to de...
The vast majority of financial planners believe the recent release of a damning report into the quality of financial planning advice will have a harmful effect on the pub...
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...