FINANCIAL PLANNING INDUSTRY

Financial planning

The investment market is a changing place for the financial services consumer in 2002. Nicole Szollos looks at the trends and developments that shape and sharpen consumer...

Financial planning

Another year, another clean slate? Not quite. Legislative overhang from 2001 is set to frame the trials and tribulations of the year ahead as the financial planning indus...

Financial planning

By virtue of their role, the heads of dealer groups have access to a unique view of the financial services landscape, especially the area relating to financial planning a...

Financial planning

When Lawrie O’Neill was just 15 years old his dream of following in his father’s footsteps as a farmer took an unexpected turn....

Financial planning

Bridgeport executive director Robert MC Brown is frustrated when Bridgeport is described as a dealer group as he says that view ignores the essence of the group and where...

Financial planning

For a man who has just been named Money Management Financial Planner of the Year, John Wotherspoon is trying awfully hard to try and make himself redundant. But then Woth...

Financial planning

In any service industry there will always be those who feel they have a need to complain. However while complaints are not exactly the most celebrated yardstick for succe...

Financial planning

A number of things strike you about Robert Kiddell’s application for this year’s <i>Money Management </i>Financial Planner of the Year award. The most obvious is that its...

Financial planning

In his first year at the helm of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), Ken Breakspear’s focus has been both on the home front as well as on the big picture issues. ...

Financial planning

Communication in the financial planning industry should be as free and open as possible as a means of building trust between advisers and clients according to Accumulus c...

Financial planning

Three days of speakers, networking and the odd drink can be gruelling but the Financial Planning Association has laboured long to make its tenth convention the high point...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has not ruled out a possible increase in membership fees in line with its proposal to modify the association’s membership structu...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has finalised an agreement to sell its professional education program to the burgeoning Indian planning industry....

Financial planning

The best way for financial advisers to tackle the 1200 page long Financial Services Reform Act is one bite at a time says Clayton Utz’s director of financial services Kar...

Financial planning

To look back over the past ten years of the FPA’s National Convention is to take a history lesson in the development of the financial planning industry....

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