The desertion of key planning practices and consequent revenue pressures have forced AFS to enter voluntary administration....

Seaview Consulting points to parallels between the recent history of the accounting industry and what can be expected in planning sector....

Financial planning broker firm Radar Results has been placed in liquidation as a result of an internal restructure....

Industry commentators claim low-cost dealer groups could be an accident waiting to happen....

Industry executives are questioning the wisdom behind suggestions that financial planners should move their clients away from investment platforms....

Few people in the financial planning industry will have failed to notice, via draft legislation released by the Treasury, that the Federal Government has delivered what w...

The average retention payment agreed to by parties in financial planning practice transactions has crept up to to 26 per cent over the last year, according to NAB head of...

Eight-five per cent of financial planning practices do not formally ask their clients for feedback, according to Business Health director Terry Bell....

With next week’s FOFA event having sold out, Money Management is now offering a webstream....

SFG Australia has reported a $2.9 million decrease in NPAT for the first half of the financial year, but pointed to the solid underlying result....

Many financial advisers are talking the talk when it comes to estate planning, but will they walk the walk? Tim Stewart reports that estate planning needs to be more than...

While financial planners accept the reasons they are required to hold Professional Indemnity insurance, there are signs the system needs a review....

Every planner should be able to enunciate what they do and how they add value in a 15-minute spiel, says HLB Mann Judd business services partner Matthew Gardiner....

Mike Taylor writes that FOFA is already beginning to change the shape and texture of the financial planning industry – something likely to be reflected in a rash of annou...