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Wholesale clients should have the financial capability and knowledge necessary to rely on professional indemnity insurance rather than accessing the proposed new compensa...

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Financial planning

Analysis undertaken by the chief executive of one of Australia’s publicly-listed financial planning licensees is suggesting that a number of financial planning firms are ...

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Financial planning

O’Brien Accountants and Advisers has completed a tuck-in acquisition of accounting business Hillard O’Donnell, with Damien O’Donnell becoming shareholder as part of the o...

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Financial planning

Countplus’ net profit after tax has grown to $5.95 million for the 2020 financial year thanks to the firm’s deliberate operational focus and a discipline approach. ...

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Financial planning

In a significant shift amid the transition of advice firms from MLC Wealth to IOOF a key Godfrey Pembroke firm, Ascent Private Wealth has opted to break ranks and move to...

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Financial planning

CountPlus has driven an internal transaction aimed at increasing the scale of its member firms....

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Financial planning

A West Australian financial planning firm given 10 weeks to find professional indemnity insurance may be just the tip of the iceberg as firms struggle to find affordable ...

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Financial planning

CountPlus member firm Mogg Osborne has completed a tuck-in acquisition of Freedom Accounting Group for $700,000. ...

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Financial planning

Brisbane-based Cooper Reeves has completed a tuck-in acquisition of CBD Wealth, which are both member firms of CountPlus....

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Financial planning

CountPlus member firm AdviceCo has announced it has completed a tuck-in acquisition of the accounting revenues of Arch Capital under the CountPlus ‘owner-driver, partner’...

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Financial planning

With IOOF yet to bed down its acquisition of MLC Wealth, competitor licensees have already revealed themselves by seeking to recruit disenchanted and worried advisers....

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that the Financial Planning Association may well have identified a key element of the future of the financial advice industry but no one should overloo...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association’s announcement of job losses and an organisational restructure driven by declining adviser numbers has reawakened calls for a merger be...

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Financial planning

New market analysis has confirmed that while many advisers are leaving the industry, those that remain are culling clients they regard as unprofitable or hard to service....

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that timing is everything and that while Westpac and ANZ have largely cleared their books of their wealth management businesses, the Commonwealth Bank ...

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