FINANCIAL PLANNING BUSINESSES

Financial planning

The former head of the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) Fund Connect project has joined its rival Ausmaq as a consultant in what the group says is a bid “to push it the la...

Financial planning

NSW-based financial planners will avoid the added burden of payroll tax due to an ‘imminent’ ruling by the NSW Office of State Revenue (OSR) that will recognise planners ...

Financial planning

More than one third of Stockford principals have agreed to buy their businesses back from the group’s administrator, after the troubled accounting and financial planning ...

Financial planning

The Investor Group dealership has struck a deal with the administrators of the troubled Stockford group to buy one of the company’s Melbourne based financial planning bus...

Financial planning

Financial planning group Lowell Flinders is set to lop the unit trust and planning training arms from its business to focus on servicing private planning clients....

Financial planning

The push by Australian groups into the budding Asian financial planning market is set to continue, with news that Ipac Securities is preparing to launch financial plannin...

Financial planning

Credit Suisse Asset Management could be headed for a dramatic revamp of its product line up, if it pushes ahead with plans to launch a range of new offerings....

Financial planning

The troubled Stockford group has fallen into voluntary administration after the collapse of a last ditch attempt to sell off some of its financial planning businesses to ...

Financial planning

Australia’s largest credit union, Credit Union Australia (CUA), has established its own dealer group, Mentor Australia Financial Planning....

Financial planning

Loyalty is fast disappearing as advisers shop around for the best deals from fund managers and dealer groups. George Liondis reports....

Financial planning

Financial planning practices have reached a stage that I would describe as mature. However, financial planning businesses are struggling to deal with an old business mode...

Financial planning

The combined National Australia Bank (NAB) / MLC group has confirmed that National Australia Financial Planning, National Personal Client Services, MLC Private Client Ser...

Financial planning

In the fervour surrounding the pursuit of the high-net-worth investor, have the clients who provide much of the industry with their bread and butter been forgotten? BEN A...

Financial planning

Forget PS 146, it could be PS 164 that will be the big compliance hurdle for financial planning businesses in 2003....

Life/Risk

Professional Investment Services (PIS) is moving against broad industry trends to add risk insurance and taxation services within financial planning businesses....

sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months 2 weeks ago

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

2 months 2 weeks ago

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

4 months 3 weeks ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

4 days 2 hours ago

The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

1 week 2 days ago

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

2 weeks ago