ACCC acknowledges 'unwritten code' comments stemming from dealer group turf war....
Financial planners and their clients have to supplant platform providers and fund managers as the price setters in the advice equation, according to Colonial First State ...
Concerns have been raised about the ever-shrinking independent dealer group sector and the potential impacts on the advice provided to clients in the future....
Opposition spokesman on Financial Services Mathias Cormann has suggested the dealer group consolidation being driven by FOFA reforms is not entirely unintentional....
Money Management’s Top 100 Dealer Group data has underscored the re-emergence of institutions as the dominant force in Australian financial planning....
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....
Financial advisers need to view scaled advice as an ongoing opportunity rather than a threat to their business model, according to Provisio Technologies director Cameron ...
Mike Taylor asks whether the formation of BT Select and the continuing competition between BT and Count Financial reflect the end of the current dealer group model....
Following a number of staff departures since the start of the year, accounting firm WHK Group has made changes to its management structure....
There was little change for the masterfunds sector over the year to March 2012, down by just 0.3 per cent, or $1.4 billion, to $433.1 billion....
BT's Mark Spiers says a letter from Count Financial CEO David Lane to Securitor and Magnitude advisers actually belittles the important role advisers play....
Australian lenders are fighting harder to attract new customers by way of reducing fees or dropping them altogether, according to a new study by financial comparison webs...
Mike Taylor writes that the existence of large payments and the perception that a sales culture continues to exist in the financial planning space represents a dangerous ...
Count Financial added 24 authorised representatives and nine financial planning practices to its network in June....
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...