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ING Australia and its aligned financial planning groups have experienced a growth spurt in planners, but overall financial performance for 2005 was disappointing....

Although financial planners think the Westpoint collapse can be blamed on a host of related parties, they are prepared to shoulder some of the responsibility....

Creditors who lost money from failed investments attributed to Westpoint are preparing to launch a class action against the financial planners who helped sell them the pr...

It’s a safe bet there’ll be a few delegates at the FPA conference this year that will scoff at the inclusion of a value-based financial planning session on the program. M...

THERE’S at least one financial planner out there who views the emergence of reverse mortgages as a compliment to financial planners...

Listed financial planning dealer group Count Financial is on track to exceed its operating profit growth target of 30 per cent for the third consecutive year....

The weight of industry opinion appears to fall on the side of a fee-for-service as a method of adviser remuneration under choice, although some suggest the case has not y...

A client’s divorce can be a financial planning opportunity, as long as you can avoid the minefields. Liam Egan reports...

Any adviser unclear over the extent to which super choice will raise the bar on their duty of care towards clients need only look to the recent experience of their collea...

Dealer groups continue to poach advisers from each other, although a number of advisers are moving of their own accord as they seek more independence....

Dealer group Financial Wisdom is preparing to change its buyer of last resort arrangements....

Sealcorp-owned financial planning group Securitor has expanded its strategic partnership with practice management specialist firm Strategic Consulting and Training....

Suspected violations of the Financial Planning Association’s code of conduct have increased this year, prompting the association to augment its efforts to investigate que...