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AMP appoints new director of Horizons

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
... enhancing its commitment to training the next generation of financial planners and supporting them to deliver quality financial advice." Constantinidis' appointment is part of AMP's review of its advice businesses following the merger with AXA in 201 ...

FoFA anxiety remains high: FPA

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... current environment, said the Financial Planning Association after a survey. Recent research shows that Future of Financial Advice compliance and the cost of regulation are the main challenges for financial planners and financial planning businesses ...

Pro bono advice for disaster victims

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
Disaster victims will get free financial advice after the Financial Planning Association of Australia yesterday said that it had re-launched a pro bono service. The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has started the service up again to ...

How advisers can double their business value

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... can double the value of financial planning businesses, according to Centurian Market Makers' Chris Wrightson. Financial advice practices are typically valued on a multiple of annual recurring revenue with many institutionally owned licensees having a ...

AMP launches new iPad app for advisers

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
AMP has launched an iPad application for its Financial Advice Network advisers that it said is integrated with their back-office systems. Today AMP said that it had launched Evolve, an iPad app featuring advice tools that are fully integrated with advisers' ...

Ripoll thanks industry for reforms support

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... services industry for its support of the Gillard Government's Stronger Super reforms. Speaking yesterday at the Financial Advice in Super Symposium in Melbourne, Ripoll said that while reforms such as the Future of Financial Advice legislation (FoFA) ...

Coalition wants fund governance changes: Fletcher

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... superannuation fund governance. Speaking yesterday in Melbourne at an Industry Superannuation Network seminar of financial advice, Fletcher, who sat on the committee that investigated the high-profile collapse of financial advice groups such as Storm ...

Distilling the 'why' unlocks social media success

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... social media also provides the opportunity for these people to find you." Having looked at what was wrong with financial advice - the tendency to make people feel bad, stupid and inadequate - Battye set about building an alternative model for his business. ...

Advisers expect greater focus on efficiency after FoFA

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
The single biggest outcome financial advisers expect to see from the Future of Financial Advice reforms is an increased focus on efficiency and greater use of technology, according to a survey commissioned by Zurich Australia. The telephone survey of ...

Email tops in social media stakes

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... incredibly powerful way to get to clients. Gardner also urged delegates not to conclude that websites don't work for financial advice firms. Instead of attracting visitors to stay longer, he said most websites do the exact opposite because the content ...