The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority chief executive has reminded advisers that the FASEA exam extension is not a done deal until it passes the Parliament...
Centrepoint chief executive, Angus Benbow, makes no bones about the group’s desire to grow the number of planners working under its license....
Australian Paul Greenwood has taken out the 2019 PlanPlus Global Financial Planning Award for Europe/Australia....
Easton Investments has announced 54 per cent growth in its statutory profit and 17 per cent growth in underlying profit due to an uplift in the number of advisers....
The Federal Government has clarified that financial planners will not only have to sign up to a code monitoring body but also face a new single disciplinary body....
AMP Limited has outlined its $1 billion strategy remake entailing fewer, more productive advisers and different approach to buyer of last resort....
The firm will acquire Count Financial from Commbank for $2.5 million....
The Government has imposed the administrative burden of redistributing grandfathered remuneration on product issuers rather than onto financial advisers or licensees....
US media reports have questioned the conduct of the board which runs the Certified Financial Planner designation over its alleged failure to detail the criminal and regul...
As some advisers look to sell their firms in light of the Royal Commission, Tizzy Vigilante explores what factors potential buyers will be looking for in your business...
Paragem managing director, Nathan Jacobsen argues that while the march towards financial planning professionalism is welcome and necessary, it would be folly to overlook ...
Mike Taylor writes that new research conducted by Money Management has confirmed general acceptance of the convergence of accounting and advice but only on the right term...
The Tax Practitioners Board has revealed it is investigating the activities of 350 practitioners over suspected “high risk behaviour”....
Netwealth has again emerged as the preferred platform for financial planners, but the latest Investment Trends research has also pointed to a consolidating platform marke...
The accountant-planner relationship is evolving to better serve self-managed super fund trustees, according to Investment Trends....
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,...