For a man who has just been named Money Management Financial Planner of the Year, John Wotherspoon is trying awfully hard to try and make himself redundant. But then Woth...
Working as an engineer in South Africa, Peter Kirk knew there was something more for him. 15 years later Kirk has made the cut as a Money Management Financial Planner of ...
Adelaide-based financial planner John Wotherspoon has beat out a host of other high profile advisers to win this year’s Money Management Financial Planner of the Year awa...
Kerry John Burke has become the second financial planner in little more than a year to be sentenced with a 10 year jail term for misuse of client funds, according to the ...
The Howard Government has been urged to reconsider the state of retirement savings after being returned for a third term in office at the weekend’s election....
The issue of planner renumeration is one which has been at the centre of debate for quite some time. Most planners with some time in the industry will be aware that the s...
There is a future role for advisers specialising in risk products as many financial planners do not sell risk products, this creates opportunities for risk advisers to be...
The investment watchdog will not stand in the way of any financial planning group or master trust operator who charges fund managers a fee to appear on their recommended ...
Fund managers worried that consumer pressure will force a squeeze on margins can breath a sigh of relief over a survey commissioned by the Investment and Financial Servic...
Cutting joint venture deals with financial planners is the best option available for accountants wanting a slice of the action in the financial advice game...
Succession planning should start the day a planner opens the doors for business, says Garvan Financial Planning general manger Greg Miller....
In my last article I discussed the role of the financial planner and how the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) does not equate advice with financial planning....
Discipline is a word that Deborah Kent is familiar with in both work and play. ...
Critical mass and a penchant for specialisation has propelled Trinity Financial Services forward as this North Queensland practice sets its sights on the road ahead. Nico...
The debate over fees and commissions is as old as financial planning itself. Tom Collins asks whether we are arguing over definitions....
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,...