FPA chief executive calls on CFP members to actively promote designation. ...
Twenty per cent lower practice valuations are the way of the future, says Seaview Consulting director Bob Neill....
Platinum Asset Management has teamed up with the Neilson Foundation to offer a scholarship to undergraduate students majoring in financial planning, FPA has announced....
Nominations for Money Management/Super Review Women in Financial Services Awards close soon....
AFA claims FOS ground rules provide inherent imbalance against advisers....
Nominations for Money Management and Super Review’s inaugural Women in Financial Services awards close shortly. ...
A dealer group head says he lost three practices to a cheque-book in the last 18 months, but all three have expressed a wish to come back....
Planner demand to drive ‘youthful’ ETF sector....
Financial planners in regional Australia share many of the challenges faced by those in metropolitan areas, writes Jason Spits, but technology has helped overcome the tyr...
The way licensees serve and support planners in regional Australia bears many similarities to the way planners assist their own clients in the regions. ...
ASIC arguably chose a poor strategy when it sought to reassure consumers about its inaction on matters relating to the Reserve Bank of Australia-related companies, Secure...
APESB deputy chairman reminds all accounting bodies of the expectation they will adopt and implement APESB standards....
Dealer group heads deny playing a numbers game and admit to turning away some planners....
The financial services regulator will observe a number of selected licensees in their FOFA implementation over the next few months with the goal of identifying areas wher...
ASIC warns of best interest duty breaches where dealer groups take a ‘cookie-cutter’ approach....
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
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....