A potential disadvantage of outsourcing paraplanning is that advisers can come to rely so much on the services of a paraplanning firm, that they abdicate their profession...
Cashing out a lump sum payment to live like a king for a day, not bothering to visit a financial planner prior to retiring, and ploughing into investment markets without ...
With the FPA’s television commercials set to begin screening in two weeks, the association has gone into warm-up mode, with chief executive Kerrie Kelly today distributin...
Platforms have proliferated and grown to colossal sizes, evolving over time to occupy a space in the financial services landscape in which they have few competitors....
In 2007, the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) will set a global precedent by requiring all advisers wishing to gain its senior qualification, Certified F...
One in five people in an employer-sponsored superannuation fund will change fund post-July 1 according to new research, but most won’t switch immediately and still haven’...
Product designers will welcome a survey’s discovery that most people establish self-managed superannuation funds for greater control of their investments, rather than for...
The weight of industry opinion appears to fall on the side of a fee-for-service as a method of adviser remuneration under choice, although some suggest the case has not y...
A client’s divorce can be a financial planning opportunity, as long as you can avoid the minefields. Liam Egan reports...
Will choice offer you the opportunity to generate more business? That kind of depends. Various reports have suggested few members, maybe around 10 per cent, are likely to...
Even though the corporate regulator has allowed financial planners to contravene sections of the Financial Services Reform Act that are the subject of Government refineme...
A retail funds manager has taken a public line on choice of fund more often associated with the industry funds, with Advance Asset Management claiming consumers could be ...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has permanently banned a Queensland financial adviser, Michel Ruurda, from providing any financial services....
While it would seem the American financial consumer likes hands-on help, Australians may want some ’professional distance’, as Ray Griffin investigates....
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
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,...