PROFESSIONAL INVESTMENT SERVICES

Financial planning

Former PIS boss Robbie Bennetts claims ASIC lacks an understanding of the financial services sector, is unwilling to listen and is not trusted and respected by the financ...

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Editorial

ANZ’s Global Wealth division underwent an executive reshuffle earlier this year, with its managing director of advice and distribution Paul Barrett leaving the group afte...

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People & Products

Centrepoint Alliance makes further changes to executive line-up, naming new CFO and company secretary....

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Financial planning

PIS owner Centrepoint Alliance expands suite of companies with completion of purchase of Associated Advisory Practices....

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Financial planning

Two businesses specialising in providing support to small licensees said they were experiencing significant growth due to dealer group dissatisfaction and FOFA. ...

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Editorial

The parent group of Professional Investment Services (PIS), Centrepoint Alliance, has stated that profit and assets for 2013 will be impacted by between $3 million to $5 ...

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Financial planning

ASIC claims it had concerns about the quality of financial advice being delivered in Australia before the collapse of Storm and the Commonwealth FP enforceable undertakin...

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Top 100

While political leaders came and went and further regulation rumbled through, it seemed the financial planning sector spent the last 12 months in a holding pattern with m...

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Financial planning

PriceWaterhouseCoopers will monitor the way PIS gives financial advice for the next nine months to ensure the group meets the standards set out in its Enforceable Underta...

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Financial planning

An independent expert will monitor the way PIS gives financial advice for the next nine months to ensure the group meets the standards set out in the Enforceable Undertak...

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Financial planning

The so-called “fifth pillar” of Australia’s banking sector, AMP, now owns the two biggest dealer groups in Australia....

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Financial planning

Planners leave amid FOFA pressure and institutional offers....

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Financial planning

Newly-formed dealer group Beacon Financial Group has signed on to use OneVue’s Unified Managed Account (UMA) investment platform. ...

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Financial planning

PIS CEO Pete Walther is stepping down after 18 months with the company....

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Financial planning

Centrepoint Alliance managing director Tony Robinson departs the business and will be replaced by John De Zwart....

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Big Feller

This can't be a surprising development. I'm sure every Financial Planner in Australia has had an experience of being sc...

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One foot out the door

Just 15 per cent of advisers said they may exit the industry over the next few years, Thats about 2,300 advisers! if ...

1 day ago
Craig Offenhauser

I think Mr. Toohey's conclusions and extrapolations are "currently" merging on the typical SMSF issue of "....prone to ...

3 days 18 hours ago

AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

10 months ago

A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months 2 weeks ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

10 months ago