Recent well publicised reports on financial planning groups have highlighted systemic risks and recurring failures by licensees to meet their legal obligations. ...
Former Financial Planning Association chairman and ING financial planning executive Wes McMaster has launched Australia’s first buyer and seller of financial planning bus...
Late last year, Mercantile Mutual announced the engagement of its two accounting based financial planning groups. Stuart Engel discovers a very different regime at the ne...
Financial planners need to look at their business as an asset instead of just a business if they want to maximise their take out, according to Shirlaws managing director,...
Semantics aside, there is a real difference between financial advice and financial planning. Tom Collins discusses the factors driving financial planners to take another ...
Semantics aside, there is real difference between financial advice and financial planning. Tom Collins discusses the factors driving financial planners to take another lo...
When planners generally talk about their own niche markets, they often refer to some people at some point in their life stage, like retirees or high net worth executives....
New journalists to Money Management often comment on the openness of financial planners and financial services professionals in general....
The successful financial planner of the future will have more in common with a medical specialist than what we now know as a financial planner....
Advisers should abandon any notion of charging clients fees on an hourly rate, says one of the industry’s most outspoken advocates of fee-based financial planning....
The divide between financial planners is becoming increasingly clear cut - there are those who have and those who have not. There are those who work as a part of a fina...
The creation of a new accountant based dealer group mid last year resulted in a whirl of publicity as some big names struck out on their own. Kate Kachor looks at their p...
Snowball Financial has received a $5 million cash injection from venture capitalist group, Equity Partners....
More than 70 financial planning groups have signed up with Sanford Securities to use its Virtual Broker online broking service....
The number of financial planning and accounting firms being bought and sold continues to grow, yet many practices fail to understand the process of valuation. Kate Kachor...
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...