Director of syndicated property group Waltus Investments, Shayne Hodge, has hit back angrily at recent criticism of its performance....
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 ...
Name: Mark Williams...
“How deeply entrenched are soft dollar commissions in the financial services industry?”...
US financial planners are locked in battle with the Certified Financial Planning (CFP) board of standards over changes to the CFP designation....
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...
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...
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...
Macquarie Investment Management (MIM) is looking to beef up Austra-lia's largest retail fund in the wake of stiff competition in the marketplace....
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...
The implementation of a wider GST on financial services poses a serious threat to financial planners, according to industry figures....
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 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....
With the Telstra II share offer just around the corner, it is worth contemplating the uneasy relationship between share trading and 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...
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,...