FINANCIAL PLANNER

Financial planning

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...

Financial planning

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 ...

Financial planning

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...

Financial planning

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 ...

Financial planning

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....

Financial planning

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...

Financial planning

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...

Financial planning

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 ...

Financial planning

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...

Accounting

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...

Financial planning

Succession planning should start the day a planner opens the doors for business, says Garvan Financial Planning general manger Greg Miller....

Financial planning

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....

Financial planning

Discipline is a word that Deborah Kent is familiar with in both work and play. ...

Financial planning

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...

Financial planning

The debate over fees and commissions is as old as financial planning itself. Tom Collins asks whether we are arguing over definitions....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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