AMP Financial Planning has beefed up its adviser support network by adding an extra 70 in-house staffers....
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....
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...