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Many financial planning businesses have had to put their growth plans and other projects on hold while preparing for FOFA. Milana Pokrajac looks at opportunities lost....

Financial planning

Money Management has partnered with Tepana Financial Indices to bring you the 2013 Independent and Institutional Dealer Groups of the Year. ...

Financial planning

Planners are already changing their commercial decisions on business acquisitions because of grandfathering issues. ...

Financial planning

The so-called “fifth pillar” of Australia’s banking sector, AMP, now owns the two biggest dealer groups in Australia....

Financial planning

While bank-owned dealer groups aggressively increased their adviser numbers in the last few years, non-aligned financial planning businesses have had to put serious brake...

Financial planning

More than half of advisers in the industry have been approached by one or more dealer group asking them to switch, according to a CoreData survey....

Financial planning

ASIC raises the bar on platform disclosures amid concern at increased platform use by investors not using a planner....

Financial planning

Strategic partnerships between product and service providers and dealer groups appear to be going through a phase of revival with the renewed optimism in the markets....

Superannuation

Financial planning firms operating in-house portfolio construction functions face having to 'FOFA-proof' against looming operational risks embedded in the Future of Finan...

Funds management

Clients’ objectives being lost amid pandemic of short-termism, according to Money Management roundtable participants....

Financial planning

BT Financial Group extends to 150 the number of funds under capital protection product....

Editorial

As it has become clearer how much capability is needed to comply with the FOFA reforms, advisers have turned to platforms to do most of heavy lifting. ...

People & Products

Ben Daly has been appointed as Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s key account manager for New South Wales and Queensland....

Financial planning

ASIC deputy chair Peter Kell has cautioned dealer groups on hiring planners who previously worked for dodgy advice practices....

Financial planning

AllMyFunds Technology has acquired financial services technology provider InvestmentLink in a move to bolster its scaled advice offering....

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