Guardian Financial Planning has hired Tim McCallum as its Western Australian advice network manager in place of John Maskew, who left the role to join Tandem Financial Ad...

AMP Financial Planning has appointed two regional managers to lead its new field support teams in NSW and ACT....

The evolution of financial planning systems has taken various forms, as the complexity of advisers’ business practices grows. Traditionally, there has been the front-end ...

Charter Financial Planning’s growth in advisers is partly due to the success of keeping its existing advisers, says former national manager Bruce Birchall. “Our retention...

The 10 largest dealer groups in Australia added 475 advisers during the year to March 31, maintaining their share of advisers in the Top 100 dealer groups at 50 per cent,...

In an attempt to replicate the scale of its Sydney business in its home town of Melbourne, listed financial planning and accountancy firm Investor Group has agreed to buy...

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Count Financial will introduce a new adviser grading system from July 2006, which will split advisers in the independent financial planning network into three levels, bas...

While it would seem the American financial consumer likes hands-on help, Australians may want some ’professional distance’, as Ray Griffin investigates....

This week Money Management welcomes industry veteran RAY GRIFFIN to its stable of regular columnists. A former FPA chairman and Money Management Financial Planner of the ...

The bar on professional standards in the financial planning industry has once again been raised by tough new rules which seek to eliminate conflicts of interest for advis...

AMP has released a free financial literacy program intended to increase consumer take-up of financial planning by reducing a perceived “knowledge gap” between consumers a...

Australian Financial Services will look to a series of strategic alliances to boost referrals to its network of advisers after signing an initial deal with a national mor...

Centrestone Wealth Advisory Group has acquired the risk insurance practise of Garvan Financial Planning risk insurance representative Phil Dixon....