FINANCIAL PLANNING BUSINESS

Financial planning

Recent well publicised reports on financial planning groups have highlighted systemic risks and recurring failures by licensees to meet their legal obligations. ...

Financial planning

Former Financial Planning Association chairman and ING financial planning executive Wes McMaster has launched Australia’s first buyer and seller of financial planning bus...

Financial planning

Late last year, Mercantile Mutual announced the engagement of its two accounting based financial planning groups. Stuart Engel discovers a very different regime at the ne...

Financial planning

Financial planners need to look at their business as an asset instead of just a business if they want to maximise their take out, according to Shirlaws managing director,...

Financial planning

Semantics aside, there is a real difference between financial advice and financial planning. Tom Collins discusses the factors driving financial planners to take another ...

Financial planning

Semantics aside, there is real difference between financial advice and financial planning. Tom Collins discusses the factors driving financial planners to take another lo...

Funds management

When planners generally talk about their own niche markets, they often refer to some people at some point in their life stage, like retirees or high net worth executives....

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Financial planning

New journalists to Money Management often comment on the openness of financial planners and financial services professionals in general....

Financial planning

The successful financial planner of the future will have more in common with a medical specialist than what we now know as a financial planner....

Financial planning

Advisers should abandon any notion of charging clients fees on an hourly rate, says one of the industry’s most outspoken advocates of fee-based financial planning....

Financial planning

The divide between financial planners is becoming increasingly clear cut - there are those who have and those who have not. There are those who work as a part of a fina...

Financial planning

The creation of a new accountant based dealer group mid last year resulted in a whirl of publicity as some big names struck out on their own. Kate Kachor looks at their p...

Financial planning

Snowball Financial has received a $5 million cash injection from venture capitalist group, Equity Partners....

Financial planning

More than 70 financial planning groups have signed up with Sanford Securities to use its Virtual Broker online broking service....

Financial planning

The number of financial planning and accounting firms being bought and sold continues to grow, yet many practices fail to understand the process of valuation. Kate Kachor...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 1 week ago

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

4 months 2 weeks ago

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

6 months 2 weeks ago

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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