Two interesting and welcome events occurred in the financial planning industry last week – the Financial Planning Association (FPA) agreed with the Association of Financi...
Equity manager PM Capital has called for an end to payments from fund managers to financial planners, dealer groups and research houses, despite sourcing most of its $1.5...
Despite software cancellations, revenue for wealth management division up 4 per cent....
Will lead fund manager review process and manage model portfolios and client relationships....
The Industry Super Network has slammed the degree to which the banks and major institutions dominate financial planning and suggested commissions were a root cause of the...
Planners must adopt more complicated technology and a systematic approach to client needs....
ANZ admits some failures on Opes Prime and Storm, but wants the professionalisation of the financial planning industry....
QInvest submission argues that advisers are at cross-roads and that they cannot serve two masters....
Financial planners remain a trusted source of investment information for Generation Y and X investors as well as baby boomers, according to an annual survey of DIY invest...
ASIC uses its submission to the Ripoll Inquiry to suggest more regulatory intervention and higher licensing and fiduciary standards for planners....
As financial planners grapple with the aftermath of the global financial crisis, it appears skittish investors are looking to take a more hands-on role, writes JANINE MAC...
Dealer group Millennium3 points to the role of accountants in giving bad advice relating to recent corporate collapses....
A Sydney planner has argued that the appropriateness of advice should be audited by a specialist CFP panel before it is delivered to clients....
Dealer groups are increasingly recruiting and training Certified Financial Planners (CFP) in an attempt to guard against possible breaches of regulation, with one in thre...
A round-table of industry chief executives has backed calls for ASIC's intra-fund advice relief to be extended to financial planners....
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,...