The chief executive of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), Ken Breakspear, flew to London last week in the hope of clinching a deal to set up the association’s own ...
A new industry body has been launched with the hope of raising industry standards amongst financial planners operating in the self managed super fund (SMSF) sector....
IOOF has been confirmed as the new owner of superannuation and investment specialist AM Corporation....
Sydney-based financial planning dealer group Madison Financial Group has signed on with industry research house Lonsdale Securities (Lonsec) giving the latter its second ...
Australia’s largest credit union, Credit Union Australia (CUA), has established its own dealer group, Mentor Australia Financial Planning....
Financial services education provider, IntegraTec, has released the latest in its series of financial planning training courses, calling for a greater concentration on co...
Financial planning and the financial services industry owe much to the risk side of the industry....
Robert Wagner is an American CFP with a vision. He foresees financial planning becoming the most important and professional industry in the world. Julie Bennett reports....
Finding success as a planner and having a life outside the office are not mutually exclusive, according to US-based planner Harry Kasanow. And, as Jason Spits writes, Kas...
While delegates to this year’s Financial Planning Association (FPA) annual convention might be expecting to put their feet up and relax, organisers have other ideas. Ben ...
The former managing director of Morningstar Australia, Graham Rich, has formed a new association for dealer group and master trust researchers....
Investors Mutual (IML) is moving from “strength to strength” according to the latest rating of the boutique fund manager by Assirt....
Financial planning practices have reached a stage that I would describe as mature. However, financial planning businesses are struggling to deal with an old business mode...
Banks, platform providers and technology providers are likely to be the groups to benefit from the roll-out of separately managed accounts (SMA) into the Australian marke...
A new study has found 89.2 per cent of financial advisers are either dissatisfied or extremely dissatisfied with the level of success they have achieved to date....
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,...