Milana Pokrajac takes a look at the troubled dealer group WealthSure, its history and its plan to change what the regulator deemed a bad compliance culture. ...

AMP-owned dealer group Hillross Financial Services signed seven new practices to its licence and welcomed 11 start-up firms in the last year, adding another $1 billion in...

Paul Derham draws on extensive recent research to provides tips to help financial planners sail through their next licensee compliance audit. ...

Count Financial’s David Lane expresses concern at the undisclosed nature of payments used to lure planners....

ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from WA-based dealer group WealthSure, with former CEO Darren Pawski banned from the industry....

Planning acquisitions and platform restructure set scene for future performance....

Morningstar has been named the Money Management Research House of the Year, wresting the title from Lonsec which had won it for the past several years....

An Investment Trends survey conducted two months before FOFA came into effect revealed only 23 per cent of financial planners felt ready....

A technical issue which prompted AFS Group not to establish a trust account via which it could remunerate authorised representatives has ended up denying those planners t...

AFA calls for clarity after Court rules brokerage account not reserved for advisers....

Dealer group recruitment is mostly frozen until after the Federal Election when grandfathering can be clarified. ...

Industry body Boutique Financial Planners has called for clear disclosure of licensee ownership after Roy Morgan research revealed a large percentage of consumers were no...

Planning companies willing to acquire licences may be able to secure grandfathering arrangements. ...

Former Apogee head says the traditional model of a risk-focussed dealer group is not sustainable in the post-FOFA era. ...