Breakaway dealer groups make good newspaper copy. With the same elements of any TV drama warring factions, disgruntled individuals, secret deals and an occasional bit of...
AMP Financial Planning has appointed two regional managers to lead its new field support teams in NSW and ACT....
The success of a dealer group is often measured by adviser numbers. However, examining the assets of the dealer group – that is, the funds under advice and the productivi...
Today’s risk advisers are having a tough time replacing themselves. There are no hard figures to prove numbers are dwindling, but most in the industry accept there is a p...
Is history haunting change in financial planning distribution?...
Increasingly, financial services organisations are conducting expensive searches offshore to replace senior executives when they resign....
Australia’s ageing population is having a significant impact on both Government policy development and the superannuation industry. Richard Block explains the dynamic....
Wage levels for paraplanners have stagnated over the past year, according to the Money Management Salary Survey....
A senior Australian Prudential Regulation Authority official has said the superannuation industry has over-reacted to a letter warning that recruitment advertising might ...
Dealer group Associated Planners Financial Services is certainly living in interesting times. The firm first began its active recruitment drive in 2002, which culminated ...
Total Financial Solutions Australia managing director Michael Scott says that 151 per cent growth was exactly what the board of directors had been planning for....
Gross revenues for Guardian Financial Planning grew by 25 per cent in 2004, and the group is aiming to repeat that performance during the coming 12 months. Revenue growth...
The country’s largest dealer groups lost the most financial planners in 2004 and according to most of them, Financial Services Reform was to blame....
Mercer Human Resources Consulting is urging the Federal Government to raise the pension age from 65 to 67 and to reduce the taxation rate paid by superannuation funds as ...
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...