FINANCIAL PLANNING FIRMS

Financial planning

Australian Planners Financial Services (APFS) will turn over $55 million this financial year through its nationwide network of 200 advisers in 90 member firms....

Financial planning

Snowball Financial Planning has secured its third arrangement to provide financial services and advice to an employer group in the last month, announcing today that it is...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Consumers’ Association (ACA) will engage in a survey of the financial planning industry des...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Consumers' Association (ACA) will engage in a survey of the financial planning industry des...

Financial planning

Financial planning and accountancy consolidator Investor Group has experienced strong growth in its financial services division despite tough market conditions, contribut...

Financial planning

There is no doubt a major trend in the industry over the past five years has been for the majority of retail investment to go through administration platforms such as wra...

Accounting

Advisers must ready themselves for a wide range of issues before choosing to join with an accountancy firm, however the venture can boost both the number and quality of r...

Financial planning

Fund managers in New Zealand are busily sniffing around financial planning firms looking to buy distribution for their products with AXA leading the moves, openly walking...

Financial planning

A group of 10 accounting and financial planning firms have teamed together to create a new planning group, Investment Taxation Services (ITS)....

Financial planning

Ipac is to unveil a program of equity options to financial planning firms this week in an effort to become Australia’s “national, pre-eminent advice and implementation gr...

Financial planning

The Financial Services Reform Bill currently before parliament sets out to provide a consistent and comprehensive regulatory framework for our industry. Tom Collins recko...

Financial planning

The founding members of the Evensky Group are dissolving their partnership only weeks before financing they sought for part of a US$45 million financial planning empire i...

Financial planning

The founding members of the Evensky Group are dissolving their partnership only weeks before finalising finances they had sought for part of a US$45 million financial pla...

Funds management

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....

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Financial planning

APIR Certificates has unveiled a smart card it hopes to establish as the standard online security device for the financial services industry....

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

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

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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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