DEALER GROUP
Editorial
The group's latest financial results reveal the extent to which the company suffered during the financial crisis....
Financial planning
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?...
Financial planning
Sentry extends van Eyk relationship with three-year agreement....
Financial planning
Dealer group AFS is still focused on floating on the ASX but the target date is now in 2013....
Financial planning
One of Australia's few remaining large, non-institutionally owned advice groups is courting four potential institutional equity partners or owners....
Financial planning
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...
Financial planning
Countplus investee Lawrence Business Management (LBM) has acquired the accounting and financial planning assets of Lena Hilton (LH)....
Financial planning
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...
Financial planning
Two former Infocus Money Management authorised representatives from Western Australia are currently the subjects of an ASIC investigation....
Financial planning
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...
Editorial
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...
Financial planning
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...
Financial planning
Software companies need to start considering how to help advisers market their knowledge to potential clients....
Financial planning
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...
Financial planning
Some financial planning companies and dealer groups may have opted to develop their own planning software, but Money Management research reveals this is proving no threat...
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Podcast
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...