FINANCIAL PLANNING PRACTICES

People & Products

Founder and former chief executive of Finovia Group, Geoff Pritchard, has joined Elixir Consulting as a business coach to service the company's Melbourne and Perth market...

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Editorial

Apart from volatile markets and investor sentiment, this year has also seen major policy developments, new investment trends and key career and business moves. Tim Stewar...

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Editorial

Richard Klipin made a shock exit from the Association of Financial Advisers to join ANZ-owned dealer group millennium3 in 2012....

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Financial planning

AMP Horizons Academy director Tim Steele has been appointed to replace Neil Swindells as head of AMP-aligned dealer group ipac, effective from early 2013....

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Financial planning

AMP Horizons director Tim Steele will take over as head of AMP-aligned dealer group ipac from early next year....

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People & Products

Three new directors have been appointed to the board of South Australian professional services firm Hood Sweeney....

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Financial planning

The AFA has launched a white paper called Pathways to Excellence, which analyses what clients want from advice businesses....

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Financial planning

Adding an accounting practice to a financial planning business is harder to pull off than advisers may think, according to JNP Capital managing director Jason Phillips....

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Financial planning

By diversifying into services other than financial planning, advisers can dramatically increase the likelihood they will retain clients, says Instreet managing director G...

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Policy & Regulation

A consulting firm predicts many financial planning practices and dealer groups will fail to get FOFA-ready....

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Financial planning

Despite conventional wisdom to the contrary, many independent financial planners are not ill-disposed towards linking to the dealer group services provided by the major b...

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Editorial

Financial planners are required to be members of an approved external disputes resolution service but they may not always know whether they are getting value for money....

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People & Products

Former Count Financial managing director Andrew Gale has joined specialist corporate advisers Chase Corporate Advisory as executive director....

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Financial planning

You can’t be everything to everyone. Fiona Mackenzie explains how to build referral agreements to help achieve success. ...

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Financial planning

Boutique financial planning practices can increase their efficiency and save money by moving their administration overseas, according to JC Consulting managing director J...

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