Phil Creswell has been appointed head of professional standards by Count Financial....
Mike Taylor writes that the services of experienced financial advisers have never been in greater demand as clients attempt to come to terms with the market volatility be...
Mike Taylor writes that the transition of Count Financial advice practices to a user-pays model has starkly revealed the degree to which the end to grandfathering has als...
The Bushfire Recovery Line, 13 HELP, has received a $100,000 donation from CountPlus....
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority is noting only three members of its executive team following the departure of its chief executive officer, Colin Chri...
Three months after the resignation of Matthew Rowe the Government has looked to former NAB Wealth executive, Will Hamilton, to fill the vacant industry spot on the board ...
CountPlus chief executive, Matthew Rowe has confirmed an early 2020 end-date for Total Financial Solutions, with the majority of authorised representatives moving to Coun...
As advice practices look to leverage the digital options to reduce costs, Mike Taylor writes that questions are being asked about the value that can be extracted by utili...
A panel of senior planning group executives have told a Money Management conference that advisers should lower their expectations with respect to the value of their advic...
The chief executive of CountPlus and former Financial Planning Association chair, Matthew Rowe, has resigned from the board of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics ...
Most firms impose contractual conditions on departing executives. CountPlus acted on them in taking legal action against a number of departing practice principals and ext...
Mike Taylor writes that the Australian financial advice industry is embarking on a transition which will be completed in 2024 with the result that it will be very differe...
The firm will acquire Count Financial from Commbank for $2.5 million....
Mike Taylor writes that new research conducted by Money Management has confirmed general acceptance of the convergence of accounting and advice but only on the right term...
Financial planning academic and “whistle-blower”, Adrian Raftery, has called for the resignation of four Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority directors and th...
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...