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Financial planning practices have reached a stage that I would describe as mature. However, financial planning businesses are struggling to deal with an old business mode...

Financial planning

While many in the financial planning industry are keen to buy into technology systems and forgo the agony of building their own system from scratch, Fiducian Portfolio Se...

Accounting

MLC is pushing for its advisers to make greater inroads into the corporate superannuation market to counter the growing threat of accountants moving into the financial pl...

Financial planning

Financial planners are beginning to feel the pinch of unmet client expectations, as the downturn on the world’s share markets shows no signs of abating....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) have joined forces to warn the Australian Prudential Regulation Auth...

Financial planning

A serious rift is developing between consumers and the financial planning industry over the release of a damning report criticising the quality of financial planning advi...

Financial planning

The financial planning industry will face a wave of criticism after the release today of a damning report on the quality of financial planning advice....

Financial planning

New continuing professional development (CPD) requirements for Financial Planning Association (FPA) practitioner members have been announced involving changes to the CPD ...

Financial planning

The financial planning industry is bracing itself for another attack on its credibility ahead of the release of a damning report expected to call for Government intervent...

Financial planning

Van Eyk Research has one a contract to act as the asset consultant over $6.7 billion worth of funds managed by Zurich Financial Services....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has add further conditions to the dealer’s licences held by two financial planning groups....

Financial planning

A former AMP financial adviser, Laurence John Tobin, has been sentenced to two and a half years jail after pleading guilty to charges laid by the Australian Securities an...

Financial planning

The middle is dropping out of the financial planning industry as medium sized financial services groups continue to decline in numbers through mergers and consolidation, ...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has admitted that its membership base suffers serious weaknesses in the key areas of disclosure, training, risk management and ad...

Financial planning

Half of those working within the financial planning industry believe there is a crisis of investor confidence in the sector, according to a Securities Institute survey....

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