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BT Wrap enhances platform offerings to make life easier for advisers and accountants handling SMSF clients....
Editorial
Amid the push to boost education standards in the financial planning industry, experience will still be central to protecting the interests of clients....
Financial planning
There is an opportunity for 10 per cent to 15 per cent of active mortgage brokers to break into the financial planning world....
Editorial
Today there are few willing to defend commission payments, writes George Lucas. But are commissions the root cause of all that is wrong with the financial planning indust...
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers will use today's Ripoll Inquiry hearings to back Treasury warnings about unintended consequences flowing from changes to financial p...
Financial planning
The Minister for Financial Services, Chris Bowen, has acknowledged the conflicting positions of Treasury and ASIC on financial planning....
Financial planning
Only a complete overhaul of the industry that involves banning commissions and creating a profession with distinct service providers will save the financial planning indu...
Financial planning
The Paraplanner of the Year awards are once again upon us. Paraplanners can enter online as of today for this year's celebrity-themed awards....
Editorial
When the industry funds refer to “vertically integrated financial institutions” they are really referring to the major banks and insurance companies. And they are right. ...
Editorial
Two interesting and welcome events occurred in the financial planning industry last week – the Financial Planning Association (FPA) agreed with the Association of Financi...
Financial planning
The Industry Super Network has slammed the degree to which the banks and major institutions dominate financial planning and suggested commissions were a root cause of the...
Financial planning
ANZ admits some failures on Opes Prime and Storm, but wants the professionalisation of the financial planning industry....
Financial planning
QInvest submission argues that advisers are at cross-roads and that they cannot serve two masters....
Editorial
It says something about the health of the Australian financial planning industry that Money Management’s 2009 Top 100 Dealer Groups survey has revealed that despite the i...
Financial planning
The removal of payments such as volume rebates will see many of Australia's largest dealer groups collapse, unless they restructure to offer their own products or run int...
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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,...