dealer groups

Financial planning

Common regulator needed for entire Financial Services sector

Real estate agents, mortgage brokers, bank employees and SMSFs should all be subject to common regulation, according to Chan and Naylor’s David Hasib....

Financial planning

The importance of good leadership in a dealer group

No one would deny that the role of a leader in business is critical. It defines a business’ culture, staff retention, customer satisfaction – and in the end its growth an...

Financial planning

Vertically integrated advice vs self-licensing and non-aligned advice

Milana Pokrajac examines the advantages and disadvantages of vertically integrated advice compared to self-licensing and non-aligned advice....

Financial planning

Vertically integrated dealer groups - weighing up the pluses and minuses

Milana Pokrajac explores the pluses and minuses of vertically integrated dealer groups and the concept of a so-called ‘benign institution’....

Financial planning

'Benign instos’ on the rise

The big institutions are dropping their product push mentality to attract more advisers. ...

Financial planning

Infocus gets rid of insto ownership

Infocus Wealth Management buys back MLC’s share of the business....

Funds management

MDAs “way of future”: GPS Wealth

Independent dealer group GPS Wealth has abandoned its former platform-heavy investment model in favour of MDAs. ...

Funds management

Vertical integration prompts strategy change

Some Australian-based fund managers have been forced to refine their distribution strategies as a result of consolidation in the financial planning sector - something whi...

Financial planning

What makes a limited AFSL so appealing to accountants?

Touted as the next frontier for accountants, Limited Australian Financial Service Licences (AFSLs) are starting to gain traction with planners too. But what makes them so...

Financial planning

Advisers urged to shield clients from risk

Investors in the retirement space have an obligation to deliver their clients a cocktail of low risk and high predictability, a senior investment manager believes....

Financial planning

Product push disguised as education

Educational programs launched by some vertically integrated dealer groups are nothing more than a product push to advisers, says Anne Fuchs....

Financial planning

Advisers face cyber privacy risk

Planners and dealer groups warned on potential costs embedded in Privacy Act changes for client data breaches....

Editorial

FPA/Cbus deal signals a new approach for planning industry

Mike Taylor writes that the FPA’s referral arrangement with big industry fund Cbus represents yet another indicator that, having lost the war prosecuted by the industry f...

Editorial

ASIC set to crackdown on financial planner payments

There are suggestions that ASIC may have concerns about “transition” and “retention” payments made to financial planning principals, and as Mike Taylor reports, perceptio...