FINANCIAL PLANNING PRACTICES

Financial planning

The principals and directors of financial planning practices will need to ensure they, their planners and their employees have appropriately nominated the superannuation ...

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Financial planning

A slow acquisition period for financial planning practices in the second half of 2009 may be the result of principals sitting back to see what eventuates in the marketpla...

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Financial planning

Financial planners’ revenues may have bounced back with the increase in equity markets, but caution and conservatism remains amongst advisers, according to Centric Wealth...

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Financial planning

DKN Financial Group has made a minority investment in regional financial companies BMG Partners and BMG Financial Planning....

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Financial planning

Perpetual has confirmed it is looking to acquire planning practices specifically targeted at high net worth individuals....

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Financial planning

There is a misconception that during the global financial crisis banks changed their lending criteria for those looking to acquire financial planning practices....

Financial planning

Joe Hockey has promised the Liberal Party will not support a decision by the Rudd Government to ban adviser commissions....

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Financial planning

Consultancy companies that customise the XPLAN financial planning software system are simply offering a service, although there is a concern that those without the requis...

Financial planning

The CFP designation has become cemented as an industry benchmark....

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Financial planning

As a result of the ongoing Government inquiries into the financial services industry, advisers will need to offer clients the "best products" - not just those pushed in-h...

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Financial planning

In the wake of the global financial crisis the financial software industry remains in a state of upheaval, with innovation relentless, competition fierce and smaller prac...

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Editorial

Regional financial planners face the same broad issues as those in metropolitan areas, but they also face a number of issues that city slickers do not....

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Editorial

With practices no longer able to rely on strong returns to help retain and attract clients, a strong value proposition can make or break a financial planning practice, wr...

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Editorial

Financial planning companies and individual planners have been the subject of severe adverse findings by Financial Ombudsman Service panelists. ...

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Financial planning

Financial planners have not been spooked by the reportage and speculation flowing from the Ripoll inquiry, but many are acknowledging that it has impacted the valuations ...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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