The real story of financial planning recruitment this year is not that the prevailing skills shortage continues to broaden, but that there has been no corresponding rise ...
The unprecedented influence that the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA’s) chief executive Kerrie Kelly has had over the financial planning profession in the last 12 m...
Despite contributing almost half a million dollars to its new television advertising campaign, the FPA has posted an after-tax budget surplus of $1.187 million for the ye...
Succession planning has the distinct honour of being one of the most widely discussed topics in the financial planning profession while being the activity which occurs th...
When Australian Private Capital’s principal decided a shake-up was in order, all the pieces of the puzzle had to fall into place. John Wilkinson reports....
Expect fire and brimstone and all manner of damnation when the financial planning industry’s new code of conduct on soft dollar payment goes live on 1 January....
In just a year, Kerry Kelly has made some tough choices in a bid to revitalise the FPA....
IOOF has revamped the structure of its financial planning group Winchcombe Carson in an effort to be more competitive in the advisory market....
Despite heavy criticism of advisers over conflicts of interest, the vast majority do not believe the financial planning industry should abandon commission-based remunerat...
What do the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Consumers Association (ACA) really want from financial services? What can be left o...
The demand for trainee advisers is increasing, according to the latest Hays Banking Quarterly Recruitment Forecast....
With conflicts of interest in the spotlight, receiving payment for services is no simple matter. Zoe Fielding asked Financial Planning Association director Sarah Brennan ...
If anyone had any doubt about how conflicts of interest, whether real or perceived, are impacting on the image of financial planners, then they only had to listen to a sp...
For Australia’s biggest financial planning dealer groups, managing conflicts is all about ensuring advisers have adequate choice....
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...