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Platforms and wraps have become such an integral part of the financial planning revenue equation that any changes to the regulatory environment are likely to be felt up a...

Financial planning

Dealer groups are preparing for changes in the financial services industry by looking to platform and fund ownership as a way to take planner and licensee remuneration in...

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has changed its process for notifying clients of margin calls in response to the Storm Financial debacle, despite acknowledging the intermediary mod...

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

The six largest institutionally-owned dealer groups place an average 73 per cent of their clients' super products with their own parent company, with the top three placin...

Financial planning

Managing director Greg Kirk has accused rival dealer groups of deliberately trying to destabilise Genesys in order to attract advisers....

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

Boutiques warned to appropriately differentiate themselves or risk a damaging homogenisation of the financial services industry....

Financial planning

Dealer groups should actively acquire small struggling member advice firms for the good of the sector rather than allowing the status quo to continue, according to Kenn W...

Financial planning

ING Australia will outsource the investment research for its aligned dealer groups to external providers in an effort to reduce any perceived conflict of interests betwee...

Financial planning

In the wake of the global financial crisis the financial software industry remains in a state of upheaval, with innovation relentless, competition fierce and smaller prac...

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...

Financial planning

Despite dealer groups developing their own software, major software companies control over half the market....

Financial planning

Three advice firm principals aligned to dealer group Australian Financial Services (AFS) have been placed on suicide watch by the dealer group in the past 12 months. ...

Financial planning

Regardless of how a practice or dealer group is remunerated, the most important consideration will always be how they receive, manage and disperse their revenue....

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