The managing director of a small Melbourne financial planning practice has written a letter to Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten, outlining the devastating effect ...
Financial planners have been told they can use rapid advice technology to combat the efforts of industry funds....
The Hon. David Bradbury, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, is just one in the line-up of high quality speakers who will be presenting at the inaugural Money Manag...
Mortgage aggregator Vow Financial has entered the financial services sector to help brokers "quarantine" their clients against financial planners, according to chief exec...
Employment prospects for the banking and financial services sectors are set to rise in the second quarter of 2011, according to recruitment consultancy Robert Walters....
Financial planners could be forgiven for suffering reform fatigue - and the release, last week, of Richard St John's consultation paper, Review of compensation arrangemen...
Next to the excess contributions tax, borrowing within super is one of the most concerning issues currently faced by self-managed super fund (SMSF) advisers, writes Carol...
Simon Stanton explains why financial planners should not leave themselves out of the insurance claim process....
Colonial First State's FirstChoice platform has embarked on a joint development with IRESS' XPLAN software, which the two companies said would reduce application turnarou...
The number of legislative and regulatory changes for the financial planning industry coming through in the next couple of years could be too burdensome and distracting fo...
With the major institutions and dealer groups having actively encouraged their financial planners to vote 'yes' to the Financial Planning Association's (FPA's) constituti...
The Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Bill Shorten, has told financial planners that there is no need to compete with the intra-...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has called upon the Treasury to restrict the use of the term 'financial planner' under law. ...
Voting for this year's BDM of the Year closes on Friday, 15 April, 2011....
With the Government promising to increase education requirements for financial planners through its Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms package, the AMP Horizons Ac...
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,...