FINANCIAL PLANNERS

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...

Financial planning

Stepping out of a practice that one has spent a life time building up – and getting the highest return for it - is a complex process....

Editorial

Why it is that the leading financial planning practitioners earn well in excess of $500,000 a year, while the vast majority of advisers generate annual incomes of less th...

Funds management

Fund managers must have the right people running their outsourcing services if they want to maintain their distribution relationships with financial planners. "Financial...

Financial planning

Regulation is a tricky balancing act for our financial services watchdogs. Tom Collins puts the case for less proscription on the latest batch of proposals from ASIC....

Financial planning

The Financial Planners and Investment Advisers Association (FPIA) needs to improve its structure if it is to administer a registration scheme for financial advisers, acco...

Financial planning

"The virtual corporation is based on the concept that the most power-ful asset an enterprise can have is intellectual property followed by cash. Everything else can be o...

Financial planning

Enthusiasm for the inaugural conference of the Financial Planners and Investment Advisers Association (FPIA) appears muted with attendance numbers projected to fall below...

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Financial planning

Financial planners with clients seeking to capitalise on the growth in the technology sector can now take advantage of the recently launched Technology Investment Fund....

Superannuation

Support for a compulsory retirement savings system in New Zealand continues to gain ground according to the latest SaverPulse survey....

Financial planning

In less than a fortnight, the first conference to combines wholesale and retail financial services kicks off in Melbourne. Two of the IFSA conference's keynote speakers s...

Financial planning

By offering choice to employees, the superannuation industry is boosting the demand for financial advice. But super funds are going head to head with financial planning g...

Financial planning

Former Adviser Investment Services (AIS) planners Bill O'Sullivan and Debbie Thompson have decided to venture forth on their own, setting up financial planning group Trin...

Financial planning

NSP Buck’s personal financial services division hopes to double its planner numbers by December in an aggressive move on the retail financial planning market....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

4 months ago

A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

3 weeks ago

Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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