The group's latest financial results reveal the extent to which the company suffered during the financial crisis....

Advisers have found in recent years that when it comes to legal matters, the buck stops with them. But are dealer groups being held accountable for their role?...

Sentry extends van Eyk relationship with three-year agreement....

Dealer group AFS is still focused on floating on the ASX but the target date is now in 2013....

One of Australia's few remaining large, non-institutionally owned advice groups is courting four potential institutional equity partners or owners....

Dealer group Millennium3 won a recent court case against one of its former authorised representatives, Avoca Consultants, which it ejected after it failed to meet the gro...

Countplus investee Lawrence Business Management (LBM) has acquired the accounting and financial planning assets of Lena Hilton (LH)....

It’s a competitive market out there in the acquisitions space as dealer groups compete to build scale. But as JAYSON FORREST discovered, Financial Services Partners belie...

Two former Infocus Money Management authorised representatives from Western Australia are currently the subjects of an ASIC investigation....

Adviser-owned Australian Financial Services (AFS) is to raise the lower limits of the size of practices it will work with as it seeks to build a more sustainable dealer g...

Many financial planners now use model portfolios to assist in the complex task of managing their clients’ wealth. But is a model portfolio the best option, and what are t...

Paying planner entitlements from fund managers and life insurers on a daily basis is proving a successful method of attracting new planners to dealer group Synchron, espe...

Software companies need to start considering how to help advisers market their knowledge to potential clients....

Dealer groups can play a key role in ensuring better practice in governance and accountability of member firms though their BDMs, according to Graham Peatey, managing dir...