Australia’s largest credit union, Credit Union Australia (CUA), has established its own dealer group, Mentor Australia Financial Planning....
Financial services education provider, IntegraTec, has released the latest in its series of financial planning training courses, calling for a greater concentration on co...
Accounting and financial planning consolidator Stockford has given its principal advisers the option to buy their businesses back from the group, in what could be the beg...
In the past 12 months Singapore’s financial services industry has begun to swell as Australian groups spread their wings into Asia. As Kate Kachor reports, Singapore is n...
Confucius once said: “May you live in interesting times”. Ray Miles says he must have been talking about Financial Services in 2002....
Loyalty is fast disappearing as advisers shop around for the best deals from fund managers and dealer groups. George Liondis reports....
It’s currently fashionable to call financial planning ‘life planning’, but Tom Collins argues that is exactly what financial planning has always been....
The Success Forum Australia 2002 program explores current trends and future directions for financial planning both in Australia and overseas. This year’s convention also ...
Australian Unity is one of the few mutual groups still in the financial services market and, as John Wilkinson writes, its new managing director plans to make sure it sta...
Robert Wagner is an American CFP with a vision. He foresees financial planning becoming the most important and professional industry in the world. Julie Bennett reports....
Financial planning practices have reached a stage that I would describe as mature. However, financial planning businesses are struggling to deal with an old business mode...
While many in the financial planning industry are keen to buy into technology systems and forgo the agony of building their own system from scratch, Fiducian Portfolio Se...
MLC is pushing for its advisers to make greater inroads into the corporate superannuation market to counter the growing threat of accountants moving into the financial pl...
The woes of troubled accounting and financial planning consolidator Stockford have continued, with the group issued with a ‘please explain’ by the Australian Stock Exchan...
Risk insurance has long been a wallflower at the financial planning party. Hampered by the depressing reality that the client may not be around to spend the benefit, risk...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...