The financial planning job market has moved on from its compliance myopia. Ross Kelly has the low down on the skills that will get you that dream job....
Financial planners are being prevented from improving the quality of advice they provide and may have to drop some of their smaller clients because of an overwhelming com...
Eight Victoria-based RetireInvest franchises have split from the ING-owned advice firm to launch a new independent dealer group with 20 authorised representatives and mor...
Risk advisers can benefit from using research. But as Ross Kelly discovers, that’s not where the story ends....
Product pushing is a bummer. Disclosure is all good. Financial Services Reform (FSR) is a positive. Becoming a certified financial planner is a must. Fee-for-service is c...
Straight-talking Sharyn Besch is more pragmatic than her peers when it comes to the big issues in the profession she’s always wanted to get into....
The youth of today are just too lazy and apathetic to think about going to a financial planner, right?...
Equity markets are firing, clients are safe in the knowledge that the financial services industry is now governed by one of the world’s most rigorous consumer protection ...
Advisers have been urged to stake a claim in the burgeoning $210 billion corporate superannuation market as the industry braces itself for the implementation of the choic...
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has released a guide to help Australian Financial Service licensees who suspect they may be breaching relevant regulat...
Investors are less interested in the fees-versus-commissions debate and much more interested in finding an adviser they can depend on, writes Craig Dunn....
Melbourne-based boutique dealer Financial Partnership wants its planners to feel they have a say in the business, something it believes is sorely lacking elsewhere. John ...
The Financial Planning Association will continue to lobby the Coalition Government following John Howard’s landslide victory in Saturday’s federal election, with the aim ...
Financial planners and other financial services providers who sell products over the phone or in other ‘time critical’ situations have had their compliance burden reduced...
The desktop of the financial planner has become a crowded place as portfolio modelling, client management and planning and compliance tools each stake their claim for a p...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...