The proliferation of financial planning professionals puts potential clients in a quandary over how to choose an adviser. TOM COLLINS writes we may be at the point where ...
BT Funds Management will introduce an internal financial advisory business, to increase its service offering and meet demand from its existing base of direct clients. ...
Many financial planners are still unaware they could face hefty fines or even jail terms for not providing ‘wholistic, appropriate or reasonable’ advice to their clients ...
A Measuring success in this industry depends on your starting point. But, as TOM COLLINS writes, how often does the industry define success in terms of the benefits it ha...
By now most of the financial services industry has heard that Westpac, in one of the industry’s lesser kept secrets, will buy Rothschild Australia Asset Management from i...
Practice management has become a big topic in financial planning and the resources expended on ensuring it happens well in a planner’s business is constantly increasing....
Corporate superannuation fund Telstra Super has set up an in-house financial planning arm for its member base....
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has given up on its call for the Government to conduct a wholesale review of superannuation and will instead c...
Deutsche Asset Management (DAM) has been contracted by Zurich to implement the investment mandates formerly carried out by Scudder, effectively making Zurich a client of ...
The link between advice and implementation should be broken, according to TOM COLLINS, and this means a re-examination of the thorny issues of commissions and disclosure....
There is a growing trend for dealer groups to be branded distinctively separate from their owners. FIONA MOORE reports on the benefits of the strategy and its history....
IntegraTec Training launched its new adviser training service today, OnTrack, an online continuing education solution for financial planners....
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has called on planners to prepare and apply for the new financial services licence now instead of putting it o...
THE RECENT departure of Greg Perry from Colonial highlights the critical role of key people in an organisation. Perry has stated many times in the past that he is ably su...
Zurich Financial Services Australia has rolled out a set of risk management tools designed to help financial intermediaries meet new obligations under the Financial Servi...
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...