AMP will make it mandatory for nearly 2000 planners to be members of a professional association. ...
Money Management/FPA breakfast will debate the planning policy issues before, during and after the Federal Election at an upcoming Thought Leadership breakfast....
Planners will be spoilt for choice as the battle for financial planning software moves from the desktop to the cloud, with new entrant OpenWealth set to launch an online ...
AMP has driven solid cashflows out of its platform acquisitions, but planning firm flows prove patchy....
Engaging inactive clients will be one of the biggest challenges facing financial advisers in the post-FOFA world, according to executive general manager of advice and mar...
Plan B's Andrew Black could be forgiven for thinking he is being followed by IOOF in the wake of its acquisition of the dealer group....
AMP Horizons Academy director Tim Steele has been appointed to replace Neil Swindells as head of AMP-aligned dealer group ipac, effective from early 2013....
Olivia Maragna has taken out the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) Adviser of the Year Award at the conclusion of the association's annual conference on the Gold Co...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned two former planners for three years and six years, respectively....
AMP has re-signed van Eyk to continue to provide access to its iRate platform to the group's financial planners....
AMP will continue to grow its SMSF capabilities in the second half of 2012....
AMP pushes further into SMSF sector with upgraded Ascend service....
AMP has launched a new version of its Ascend SMSF service, which will be rolled out to its entire financial advice network over the second half of 2012....
Many significant players in the dealer group sector have reduced their financial planner numbers, though the industry remains optimistic....
Consolidation is changing the face of the financial planning dealer group sector before our eyes, while small-to-medium players continue to struggle....
It is very worrying that Stephen Jones and the Labor government are now trying to limit the access retirees have to thei...
Let's face it, recruitment numbers are down because the government, and their bureaucrats, have made this a dying indust...
Phil Anderson is pure gold....