PARAPLANNING

Features

Australian financial advice firms are increasingly looking towards outsourcing as a tool to optimise their business, two industry professionals share, freeing advisers to...

Financial planning

Sequoia has made its latest acquisition of a national paraplanning service as it seeks to expand its offering for advisers....

Financial planning

A new survey has found that less than a quarter of paraplanners hope to become a financial adviser, placing a hurdle in the way of boosting adviser numbers....

Financial planning

Guideway Financial Services has announced a new AI avatar paraplanning service which can present advice to clients, and is in talks with super funds about expansion....

Financial planning

Speaking to Money Management, AZ Next Generation Advisory’s chief executive Paul Barrett has outlined the firm’s plans to quadruple its size to become Australia’s leading...

Financial planning

Despite misconceptions that paraplanners solely write SOAs, two industry experts believe they will become more involved in the advice delivery process as QAR recommendati...

Financial planning

Following a successful pilot phase, the firm has partnered with three businesses to create an integrated paraplanning solution for advisers....

Financial planning

Amidst concerns that video SOAs or a shorter advice document could replace paraplanners, this industry professional sees it as an opportunity for them to upskill....

Financial planning

The Quality of Advice Review may be hoping to reduce regulatory red tape but the need for temporary support staff and paraplanners is on the rise as more advisers opt for...

Financial planning

With merger activity top of mind for many financial planning firms strained by costs and regulation, this paraplanning firm has shared some pros and cons to take on board...

Financial planning

Financial advice technology provider Asendium believes paraplanners are the key to unlocking growth and efficiency for the Australian advice sector....

image
Financial planning

Passionate paraplanners are incorporating colourful flow charts and even photographs of Teslas into Statements of Advice to support the adviser-client relationship....

image
Financial planning

Diverger has partnered with Atlas Outsourcing to provide virtual administration and paraplanning services to its client network through staff in the Philippines....

image
Financial planning

AMP advisers have been notified that the company is ceasing offering paraplanning and recruitment services because it will be outsourcing to external parties....

image
Financial planning

Strong technical knowledge and communication skills have seen last year’s Money Management Paraplanner of the Year, RSM’s Chris Cynkar, take out the top spot for the seco...

image
sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

James Patterson

How much did IRESS pay Deloitte for this analysis? Not sure they are the arbiter of intelligent forecasting in this spac...

14 hours ago
Howard Elton

Article makes no comment that the advisers leaving industry are older and have many years of work an life experience w...

1 day 21 hours ago
Peter Robinson

This article appears to overlook the fact that there must be a fairly large group of advisers who missed out on the expe...

1 day 21 hours ago

ASIC has secured travel restraint orders against a financial adviser while he is the subject of an investigation into alleged financial misconduct....

4 days 15 hours ago

Insignia Financial has unveiled a new operating model and executive team, including a new head of advice, while three senior executives are set to depart the licensee....

2 weeks 1 day ago

Analysis by Chant West of the annual performance of growth superannuation funds has uncovered which ones see the best performance....

1 week 1 day ago