IntegraTec is challenging the FPA’s Diploma of Financial Planning (DFP) course af-ter its latest course gained the go ahead from ASIC and Vocational Education and Trainin...
It has often been said that stock brokers and securities traders look down on the fi-nancial planning industry. That's going to be less likely in future, according to War...
Perpetual Private Clients’ group executive Wayne Wilson likes a bit of a wager every now and then. And we’re not talking the odd tenner, either. This is why Wil-son has i...
Joe Hockey’s office is likely to be bombarded with reams and reams of responses to the federal government’s draft CLERP 6 legislation....
AiC Worldwide is proud to be working with Money Management to bring you the Financial Planning Solutions Summits in 2000....
Despite the growing professionalism of the financial planning community, advisers are continuing to fall foul of the law. Samantha Walker investigates the fall from grace...
Most dealers make every effort to comply with both the spirit and the requirements of the law. The smartest ones seek to use their compliance behaviour as a competitive a...
The Internet can be a powerful leveller of the playing field, allowing the differences between medium sized and large financial planning firms to evaporate quickly....
It is interesting to see how, despite the temporary dictates of current fashion, certain values always come into their own. Right now “trust” is an old fashioned value of...
A stock market listing, a new fee structure and a management team not afraid to speak their minds – there is never a dull moment at Count Wealth Accountants. Samantha Wal...
The financial planning industry is ready for today's release of CLERP 6, according to KPMG’s Peter Hutley....
This is supposed to be the information age, but no one has told the financial planning industry. This has to be the industry that has the least information available abou...
AMP Financial Planning’s announcement last week that it is to review the way it re-wards its top business writers is in many ways a watershed for the financial planning i...
Industry pundits believe that planning groups and fund managers could be set for a tough year in 2000, following 1999 buying revelry. Samantha Walker investigates just wh...
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,...