FINANCIAL PLANNERS

Financial planning

Director of syndicated property group Waltus Investments, Shayne Hodge, has hit back angrily at recent criticism of its performance....

Financial planning

There is a growing recognition of the role of financial planners as lifestyle planners or strategists in helping clients achieve their lifetime goals, rather than simply ...

Financial planning

“How deeply entrenched are soft dollar commissions in the financial services industry?”...

Financial planning

US financial planners are locked in battle with the Certified Financial Planning (CFP) board of standards over changes to the CFP designation....

Life/Risk

Since their earliest days, life insurance companies have been some-thing of a mysterious black box to analysts, advisers and the public. The mystery of the life insuranc...

Financial planning

Since its launch in 1992, the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation has been setting the standard in professional and educational requirements for the financial p...

Financial planning

The term "bland awarenes" is an old marketing adage used to describe the sensation of boredom faced by consumers constantly bombarded by marketing messages which are oste...

Financial planning

Macquarie Investment Management (MIM) is looking to beef up Austra-lia's largest retail fund in the wake of stiff competition in the marketplace....

Financial planning

There is a revolution happening in retail financial services. Five years ago, the market was bursting at the seams with bundles of new retail investment products for fin...

Financial planning

The implementation of a wider GST on financial services poses a serious threat to financial planners, according to industry figures....

Financial planning

Legal skills are not the monopoly of lawyers. They can, and should, be developed by financial planners if they wish to stand alongside other professionals such as lawyers...

Financial planning

Financial planners who have UK migrants on their books have been warned to take special care with their advice or face potential liti-gation in the future....

Financial planning

With the Telstra II share offer just around the corner, it is worth contemplating the uneasy relationship between share trading and financial planning....

Financial planning

Financial planners may have a far higher success rate than most other small businesses, but there’s still plenty of room for improvement. Zilla Efrat asks some of the ind...

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

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

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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....

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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 ...

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

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