FINANCIAL PLANNING BUSINESS

People & Products

The managing director of Lynx Financial Services, Stuart Abley, has resigned from the ING owned dealer group in protest and joined rival IOOF Funds Management....

Financial planning

INVESTOR Group has flagged the possibility of further acquisitions as part of its bid to make its Prescott brand a nationally recognised financial planning network after ...

Financial planning

Investor Group will forge ahead with plans to make Prescott a nationally recognised financial planning brand and penetrate the financial planning market in all Australian...

Financial planning

At what point should a financial planning business consider outsourcing back-office functions and when is the right time to do it? FIONA MOORE reports on the telltale sig...

Financial planning

Melbourne-based Crewe Consulting has launched an expansion program and re-branded the dealer group to Certainty Financial....

Financial planning

A MAJORITY of Queensland-based financial planners would prefer to listen to other planners and individuals with their own practices at industry conferences, according to ...

Financial planning

Who will pay for the costs of implementing the Financial Services Reform Act is a question that has been lost in the noise of the rollout of the Act. JASON SPITS examines...

Financial planning

Taking a financial planning business to a national level requires a robust business model and determination to match. FIONA MOORE reports on how a 78-year-old stockbrokin...

Financial planning

The flip side of administration platform fees is the value that master trusts can help generate for a financial planning business. Tynan Mackenzie chief executive officer...

Financial planning

Circumstances have made a Melbourne planning office become a model for the future. JOHN WILKINSON reports....

Funds management

The Bendigo Bank has consolidated its existing financial planning subsidiaries under a new division, Bendigo Bank Wealth Management, ahead of a planned launch of the busi...

Financial planning

Investor Group is set to add a third financial planning business to its Adelaide based Prescott Consultants stable, with an agreement announced yesterday to purchase Sand...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA)will undertake five surveys in an ambitious move to gauge the state of the industry and its own place within it as the peak indust...

Financial planning

Australian Unity is to set up its own financial planning arm, with Garrisons providing the back-office support....

Financial planning

As part of its national push, Tasmanian stockbroking and financial planning company, Shadforths Limited has purchased RC & A Financial Services Pty Ltd in Melbourne....

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

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

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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...

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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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