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The Wilson HTM group is set to stay on the acquisition trail it started with the purchase of BNP Paribas’ Australian asset management business, confirming it is currently...

Financial planning

The number of consumers using a financial planner for advice has increased, particularly amongst the older generations, with people over the age of 35 more likely to use ...

Life/Risk

While the insurance industry is in disarray and premiums are going through the roof, risk insurance is too important to be dismissed. JOHN ASHTON reports on how planners ...

Financial planning

The Snowball Group has been requoted on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) after raising $2 million to fund the implementation of the group’s strategy, which includes in...

Financial planning

Investors continue to be sceptical about the quality of financial planning advice and that vested interests are being promoted by the advisory market ahead of the needs o...

Financial planning

Niche marketing is not about scaling down your business – it’s the total opposite. Five financial planners tell KATE KACHOR and FIONA MOORE how niche markets have helped ...

Financial planning

Macquarie Financial Services is in the middle of an extensive overhaul of its stock broking business that will see the group provide a full service broking division by la...

Financial planning

The Ethical Investment Company of Australia (EICA) has signed an agreement with ACTU Member Connect to provide ethical financial planning services to its union members....

Financial planning

For my last article, I normally summarise my previous articles for the year. However this time I want to only do that in part. That’s because this year was the last year ...

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Integration is a win for all stakeholders...

Financial planning

High net worth client financial planning and dealer group Charterbridge Davey has shed its finance broking division and is planning to offload its property trust arm in a...

Financial planning

The burgeoning union backed industry superannuation fund sector will prove the greatest threat to the viability of boutique financial planning groups over the next decade...

Financial planning

ABN Amro Morgans has beat out a number of other advisory and wealth management groups to become the financial planning partner to the Bank of Queensland....

Financial planning

I set off on my recent trip to the UK smug in the belief that I’d be able to teach the Poms a thing or two, as our industry, as we keep telling each other, is so far ahe...

Financial planning

Wealth seminar operators are threatening the advice given by financial planners and making it difficult to provide advice in the future, Ipac director and financial plann...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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