FINANCIAL PLANNING BUSINESS

Editorial

Barry Lambert looks at the underlying value of an AFSL, why you might avoid buying one and the likely impact of licensing accountants. ...

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Funds management

The aftermath of what was deemed the largest superannuation fund fraud in Australian history has seen only one individual jailed so far, with most other parties having th...

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Financial planning

Half of former Whittaker Macnaught advisers have set up their own practices under CBA-owned Financial Wisdom, while Eureka and MSI Taylor are picking up the rest of the b...

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Financial planning

ASIC deputy chair Peter Kell has cautioned dealer groups on hiring planners who previously worked for dodgy advice practices....

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Financial planning

Mortgage Choice Financial Planning has embarked on the 'soft launch' of the mortgage broker's planning business, opening the doors to two new franchises....

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Funds management

HLB Mann Judd Melbourne will create a new wealth management division to be headed by financial adviser Andrew Lord....

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Financial planning

This year's Financial Planner of the Year awards saw a list of diverse yet high-calibre financial planning professionals enter the finals....

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Financial planning

It was Michelle Tate-Lovery's drive to professionalism and focus on client education which won her the 2012 Money Management Financial Planner of the Year title. Milana P...

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Financial planning

Boutique planners need to develop a specialised business model in order to compete against "mass service providers", says Next Step Financial Strategies partner Neil Whit...

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Editorial

AMP's third quarter cashflows announcement points to contribution made by wealth management and SMSFs....

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Financial planning

Mortgage Choice has opened a financial planning business which will commence initial operations next month and aims to have 60 advisers within three years....

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Financial planning

Financial planning firms are increasingly likely to link with mortgage brokers, but the different skill sets, remuneration models and legal interpretations remain a barri...

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Financial planning

Adding an accounting practice to a financial planning business is harder to pull off than advisers may think, according to JNP Capital managing director Jason Phillips....

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Financial planning

Melbourne-based financial planning business FMD Financial has acquired two advisory firms - Investwell Financial Planning and Financial Lifestyle Managers....

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Financial planning

Centrepoint Alliance has entered into a conditional agreement to sell its Singaporean financial advice business to Aviva Asia Holdings....

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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

Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

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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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