Tasmanian-based planner is trying to clear his name....
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Chris Pearce, has advised the Financial Industry Complaints Service to be mindful of the flow-on effects that may occur if t...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has intervened in Sovereign Capital’s intention to wind up the Sovereign Prudential Fund, due to concerns the Gold Co...
The Government’s plan to make professional indemnity insurance mandatory for financial planners has received a lukewarm response from the Financial Planning Association o...
The current minimum compensation arrangements applying to holders of an Australian Financial Services licence will continue to apply for another six months while the Gove...
Remuneration levels, reasonably priced professional indemnity insurance, good training facilities, product research and technical support are the five top criteria financ...
In the financial planning industry, the road to setting up your own practice is full of pot holes. BEN ABBOTT asked John Kiley how he survived his first year....
Booming investment markets and a decision to not pay almost $1 million for professional indemnity cover have helped Barry Lambert’s Count Financial to record a $12.3 mill...
This marks the seventh year Money Management has produced the Top 100 Dealer Groups Survey and it remains the most extensive report of its type in the industry. The surve...
Professional indemnity insurance premiums for financial planners decreased by around 12.5 per cent in 2004 and are set to remain reasonably stable despite the impending i...
Inadequate professional indemnity (PI) insurance is proving a major compliance hurdle for financial planning dealer groups, the Australian Securities and Investments Comm...
Queensland financial planning firms Gunther Doyle Griffin, Swan Financial Group and Brisbane-based Associated Planners have merged to create a new group, 4people....
It is not every financial planner who can count a meeting with the Prime Minister as a career highlight....
The Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners (AIOFP) has changed its membership structure, fees and benefits in an attempt to increase its market presence....
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...