FINANCIAL PLANNERS

Financial planning

Bridgeport executive director Robert MC Brown is frustrated when Bridgeport is described as a dealer group as he says that view ignores the essence of the group and where...

Financial planning

Royal and SunAlliance Financial Services (RSAFS) will add a further dealer group to its distribution capabilities with the launch of its newest group, Guardian Financial ...

Financial planning

The best way for financial advisers to tackle the 1200 page long Financial Services Reform Act is one bite at a time says Clayton Utz’s director of financial services Kar...

Financial planning

In his first year at the helm of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), Ken Breakspear’s focus has been both on the home front as well as on the big picture issues. ...

Financial planning

Communication in the financial planning industry should be as free and open as possible as a means of building trust between advisers and clients according to Accumulus c...

Financial planning

The official unveiling of Compound Investments at this year’s Financial Planning Association (FPA)annual convention will be one of the industry’s lesser guarded secrets....

Financial planning

While the employment market in other sectors, including parts of financial services, is looking decidedly grim in the face of a slowing world economy and the after effect...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has finalised an agreement to sell its professional education program to the burgeoning Indian planning industry....

Financial planning

Asking someone who to name a person they consider to be an influential person is not easy, but when the question is narrowed and the aim is to pick the most influential p...

Financial planning

What exactly is meant by wealth management? In defining wealth management there seems to be two polar extremes. For some people, it is simply a good marketing term for fl...

Financial planning

Over the past five years, the acquisition by banks and insurance companies of independent financial planning groups has become common market activity. These acquisitions ...

Financial planning

BT Margin Lending has launched a regular gearing service into its retail managed funds, making it easier for clients and advisers to access margin loans....

Financial planning

Growing interest in investing has also called attention to some less than professional practices. Tom Collins argues that in the public’s eye planner renumeration may fal...

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...

sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

2 days 20 hours ago

Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

1 week ago

It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

3 weeks 5 days ago

Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

3 weeks ago

A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

6 days ago

Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

5 days 3 hours ago