The financial planning division of Salomon Smith Barney’s (SSB) private clients arm has signed up with Sealcorp’s dealer-to-dealer services, boosting the range of tools a...

This being my final contribution to Money Management from New York, a review of the big-picture trends shaping the US financial planning industry seemed a logical sign-of...

It is a pretty unusual occurrence to find a financial planner with nothing to do. It seems these days that if a planner does not have towering piles of paper work precari...

The Financial Planning Association’s National Compliance Committee and Professional Standards National Advisory Committee chairman James Doogue will step down from the po...

Consolidators have been big news in the last year but their success has been mixed. Simon Segal examines where they fell in this year’s rankings....

In the past many stockbroking firms who tried to push their way into the financial planning failed, however as Kate Kachor reports some have persisted....

While this year’s Top 100 dealer survey does not feature any large acquisitions there was plenty of action still occurring among those who scored a place in the rankings....

Financial services consolidator Stockford will rollout its own financial services referral group next month, despite the groups latest loss of more than $5 million in hal...

A round up of the latest events in the retail financial services business....

<caps>Major</caps> Singaporean corporates may be eyeing Australia’s telecommunications, airlines and financial services industries, but a band of smaller Australian finan...

Small dealer groups will be the fastest-growing sector of financial planning in the next five years, says industry commentator Tom Collins....

ING Financial Planning (INGFP) has expanded its capabilities in financial planning with the addition of superannuation administration and consulting group, Super Concepts...

Accounting and financial planning consolidator Investor Group has picked up another regional accountancy practice, this time entering an agreement to acquire a Tasmanian ...

A number of well known financial planning figures from the local industry are stranded in the US after the Financial Planning Association in America cancelled its annual ...