Industry research tells us that more and more people are turning to financial planners – but what do clients really think of their advisers? David Chaplin investigates....
Zurich Financial Services has added an interactive e-mail component to its web site but has stated it will not use the service to provide advice or sell products. Superan...
Continuing Tax Office crack-downs on self employed and sub contractors will have a marked impact on self employed service providers such as financial planners this financ...
Financial planning in South Africa has a history as long as financial planning in Australia – and despite the country’s political problems, business is booming. In the fo...
Consumer demand for quality financial advice will outstrip supply within five years, according to Zurich national manager, business development, Bob Ossey. Speaking at ...
When Australian financial planner Cameron Knox was 24, an English financial planning company specialising in the expatriate market sent him to help look after the financi...
The financial services industry’s current obsession with star ratings opens up a can of worms for consumers and the industry....
Fund manager, Armstrong Jones (AJ) has continued its incredible run in one of the New Zealand industry's top awards programs, racking up the Morningstar Fund Manager of t...
On just about any criteria, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has been a very successful trade and professional association. In little over ten years, it has put f...
The recent explosion of the Internet and the growth of online trading present two faces of new technology, according to Chifley Financial Services product management and ...
I have been interested in some of the comments made by the press and by even some areas of the financial services industry about the quality of financial planners....
Awareness of the Internet is now widespread throughout the financial services industry as is the volume of information which comes with the new medium....
A legal technicality in the new SLAB3 legislation is threatening Australia’s 300,000+ self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF). The legislation, due to come into effect ...
A legal technicality in the new SLAB3 legislation is threatening Australia’s 300,000+ self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF). The legislation, due to come into effect ...
Despite the growing professionalism of the financial planning community, advisers are continuing to fall foul of the law. Samantha Walker investigates the fall from grace...
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,...