Consolidation is changing the face of the financial planning dealer group sector before our eyes, while small-to-medium players continue to struggle....
Mike Taylor writes that the sale of client books entailing trailing commissions will look utterly incongruous in a post-FOFA world unless financial planners are actively ...
An Australian Crime Commission report into investment scams has underscored the role financial planners have in protecting investors from themselves....
Mike Taylor asks whether the formation of BT Select and the continuing competition between BT and Count Financial reflect the end of the current dealer group model....
BT's Mark Spiers says a letter from Count Financial CEO David Lane to Securitor and Magnitude advisers actually belittles the important role advisers play....
Financial adviser caution generated by the global financial crisis and its continuing aftermath has served to disguise a general shift away from managed funds, according ...
Mike Taylor writes that the existence of large payments and the perception that a sales culture continues to exist in the financial planning space represents a dangerous ...
Women need financial advice, and the financial planning industry needs more women, writes AMP Horizons Academy's Tim Steele....
ASIC will soon hold discussions with the financial planning industry about the potential for setting up a self-regulatory organisation which would develop and administer ...
Given the end of the 2011/12 financial year also represents the start of a 12 to 14-month countdown to the next federal election, the time available for Bill Shorten to m...
The Federal Opposition has signalled it remains to be convinced about either introducing or supporting legislation which would restrict the use of the terms 'financial pl...
Confusion appears to be the outcome of the Government's failure to answer questions about the provision of intrafund advice in the latest tranche of Stronger Super draft ...
ASIC has confirmed it has increased its efforts to better understand the inner workings of the financial planning industry by recruiting from within the sector....
The extent of the current dealer group turf war has been revealed by new Wealth Insights research revealing around 44 per cent of the financial planners surveyed had been...
With the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services having last week handed down its final report on the collapse of Trio Capital, it is worth r...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...