FINANCIAL PLANNING PRACTICE

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There are many aspects involved in running a successful financial planning practice, including the things clients can see and the things that lie beneath the surface. Mil...

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Many financial planning businesses have had to put their growth plans and other projects on hold while preparing for FOFA. Milana Pokrajac looks at opportunities lost....

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The average retention payment agreed to by parties in financial planning practice transactions has crept up to to 26 per cent over the last year, according to NAB head of...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers can add value to their clients’ and their own businesses by capitalising on doing the things humans do best – and automating or eliminating the rest, s...

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It was Michelle Tate-Lovery's drive to professionalism and focus on client education which won her the 2012 Money Management Financial Planner of the Year title. Milana P...

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Equip Super Financial Planning is expanding its offering to include self-managed super fund advice for its superannuation members....

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The AFA has launched a white paper called Pathways to Excellence, which analyses what clients want from advice businesses....

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Adding an accounting practice to a financial planning business is harder to pull off than advisers may think, according to JNP Capital managing director Jason Phillips....

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Sonnie Bailey explores some of the sources of regulation which extend beyond what financial planners may think of as ‘regulation’, in the narrow sense of the term....

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Women need financial advice, and the financial planning industry needs more women, writes AMP Horizons Academy's Tim Steele....

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In a time of unprecedented regulatory change and market upheaval facing financial advisers, financial services licensees are going to have to adapt along with advisers to...

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With appropriate transition arrangements in place, the purchase of a financial planning practice should see 98 per cent of the client base retained, says Kenyon Partners ...

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Financial planning

When selling a financial planning practice, the handover period is crucial and it is advantageous for the vendor to remain in the business for a period of 12 months or mo...

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The average financial planning practice has a lot of room for improvement in major areas such as client communication and succession planning, according to data from fina...

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Midwinter Financial Services has launched a new product - AdviserTECH CPD - which it describes as "a simple, practical online CPD education and compliance solution for fi...

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