MARINA DZAJA gives a recruitment consultancy’s persepective on financial planning careers and the trends that are starting to emerge....
Online share trading group E-Shares has had its plans to push into the financial planning market thwarted after its agreement to purchase Norgard Clohessy Financial Plann...
The Berkley Group will expand its focus beyond financial planning into funds management with the creation of Berkley Group Funds Management and the rollout of its first t...
IOOF is poised to sign a deal to provide all of Bendigo Bank’s fund management operations, including product development....
The Bendigo Bank has consolidated its existing financial planning subsidiaries under a new division, Bendigo Bank Wealth Management, ahead of a planned launch of the busi...
How much does the planner sitting next to you earn? Are they more valuable than you? The easiest way to measure the monetary worth of a financial planner is by their job ...
As a financial planning practitioner I have seen significant change to the industry in terms of consumer expectations, product design and flexibility, educational standar...
Financial services giant AMP will acquire PricewaterhouseCoopers’ financial planning division for an undisclosed amount, growing the business by 23 financial planners and...
The key to future financial planning groups will be selling the relationship, not what platforms the dealer group is using, says Strategic Consulting and Training managin...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA)will undertake five surveys in an ambitious move to gauge the state of the industry and its own place within it as the peak indust...
From an early age, Kevin Bailey knew he wanted to be involved in financial services. However, when you’re a teenager and there is no such occupation as a financial planne...
The Financial Planning Week national call centre has become a central awareness campaign for both the financial planning industry and the public alike....
The financial planner of the future will be a true service provider, outsourcing non-core activities to specialise in areas of expertise. NICOLE SZOLLOS talks to three pl...
BACK in the 1950s the future was seen as a time of jet-powered cars, plastic clothes and holidays on the moon. Far fetched, but given the potential of science and technol...
Australia’s financial services industry is known for its competitive nature, its willingness to out wit, out perform and out launch its opposition. However, it seems out ...
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...