DEALER GROUP
Financial planning
A Measuring success in this industry depends on your starting point. But, as TOM COLLINS writes, how often does the industry define success in terms of the benefits it ha...
Financial planning
Australia’s largest dealer group is preparing to link practice management directly to financial rewards. GEORGE LIONDIS reports on what could be a revolution in adviser r...
Financial planning
Practice management has become a big topic in financial planning and the resources expended on ensuring it happens well in a planner’s business is constantly increasing....
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The Frank Russell Company has formed a new alliance to distribute its series of multi-manager fund through the Associated Planners dealer group amidst continuing speculat...
Financial planning
Australia’s largest financial planning dealer group, AMP Financial Planning, is predicting extensive amalgamations within its network of financial planning firms as part ...
Financial planning
The Commonwealth Bank has given Colonial Financial Services and Financial Wisdom planners the opportunity to choose which dealer group they wish to operate under as part ...
Financial planning
Melbourne-based dealer group Glenhurst Corporation is expected to sign a joint venture with a significant accounting firm in the next few days as part of its expansion dr...
Financial planning
One of Australia’s peak accountancy bodies, CPA Australia, has asked groups tendering to provide back-up services to its newly proposed dealer group to help finance its v...
Financial planning
Contract administration as part of a business strategy can ensure ongoing income stream for a dealer group, but is an area that is sometimes over-looked, according to Inv...
Financial planning
Ventura Investment Management, the new funds management arm of dealer group Professional Investment Services (PIS), has been given its first taste of credibility with new...
Financial planning
There is a growing trend for dealer groups to be branded distinctively separate from their owners. FIONA MOORE reports on the benefits of the strategy and its history....
Financial planning
The IOOF Group has taken a strategic stake in Perth based dealer group Ascare Financial Services as part of its latest push to extend its planning network Australia-wide....
Financial planning
Bucking the aggregation trend, eleven former Pembroke and Godfrey Pembroke financial planners have established their own planning business following their growing disillu...
Financial planning
The Westpac Banking Corporation is believed to be preparing to launch a new financial planning dealer group that will be staffed exclusively by independent financial advi...
Financial planning
An open letter to: Directors of Institutional Financial Planning Groups;...
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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...