Hartley Poynton started as a stockbroking firm 45 years ago, but since then has grown into a company offering a broad range of services across the financial planning spec...

The Certified Financial Planner designation is about to undergo one of the biggest changes in its 23 year history. Stuart Engel reports on the struggle to wrestle the CFP...

In what promises to be the biggest and the best National Convention the FPA has ever staged, delegates this week will converge upon the Melbourne Convention Centre for th...

Financial planners contemplating a move from adviser to manager should develop fail-safe business strategies before making the leap, according to Heraud and Harrison dire...

Two of the biggest names in financial planning have joined forces....

IPAC has signed a joint venture agreement with Illawarra Mutual Building Society (IMB) to develop a financial planning business for IMB members....

Probably the biggest trend in financial planning circles over the past two years has been the plethora of dealer groups, master trusts and investment groups offering advi...

The Financial Services Reform Bill reforms will have a significant impact on the operations of life insurance agents. Nicole Szollos looks at some of the changes already ...

Male and female financial planners are perceived as two distinct groups by the Australian public, according to a National Australia bank (NAB) survey....

Godfrey Pembroke founder John Godfrey has been named as chairman of Glebe Asset Management’s financial planning arm....

Accountancy and financial planning consolidator Stockford has listed at a solid 23 cent premium to its $1.00 offer price and attracted solid volume in its first hour of t...

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will next month roll out an initiative to assist principal industry members in areas of compliance and professional standards....

Singapore’s financial planning industry has become one of the first in the South East Asian region to adopt a licensing regime for independent financial advisers (IFAs)....

Educators in the financial planning industry have banded together to form the Financial Planners Education Association (FPEA). ...