FINANCIAL PLANNING BUSINESS

Financial planning

Australia’s second largest dealer group has confirmed the scepticism of market analysts by all but abandoning plans for a proposed public listing....

Financial planning

How do you charge fees to your clients – upfront or ongoing? The value of your practice could double depending on how you charge for your advice, writes John Ellison....

Financial planning

Australian Unity will accelerate its campaign to build its financial planning business in New South Wales after announcing merger plans with Grand United Friendly Society...

Financial planning

Financial planning in John Howard’s electorate of Bennelong isn’t a case of preaching to the converted as David Carney tells Rebecca Evans. Like politics, it’s all about ...

Financial planning

Not many fund managers have made the trek to Ingleburn to take Stephen Varhegyi out to lunch because soft dollar isn’t really what it’s about in Latham’s electorate. Rebe...

Financial planning

Westpac has beefed up its financial advice team following the promotion of BT Financial Group general manager distribution and key executive within the group’s advice div...

Financial planning

Multi-manager Russell Investment Group has bulked up its presence in the eastern states with three new executive hires following its recent success in winning a spate of ...

Financial planning

Financial planning business management group CARM has struck a deal with Professional Investment Services to provide the dealer firm’s network of over 1,200 planners with...

Financial planning

Many financial planners are defining their target markets in the wrong way. Carolyn Stafford looks at how this can be turned around....

Financial planning

Competition for clients is heating up among financial planning firms, particularly the small to medium boutique firms, but there are some serious service gaps in the prod...

Financial planning

Over the past three years, more and more advisers have said they are becoming ‘lifestyle’ focused with their financial planning business and we have heard buzz words such...

Financial planning

Melbourne-based financial services group Australian Unity is throwing its weight behind expanding its three year old financial planning arm with plans to increase its adv...

Financial planning

Strategy firm Financial and Technical Solutions (FTS) has been signed up by financial planning compliance system, Keys, to provide technical advice in developing specific...

Financial planning

We are a financial planning practice that has developed from the old style insurance company. Because of this we have about 4,000 clients spread all over Australia. Under...

Financial planning

National Australia Financial Planning Business (NAFPB) has relocated its planners away from the metropolitan centres and head offices of the three states it operates in t...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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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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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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