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Above and beyond: Planner excellence recognised

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... Award presented to Lachlan Haigh. "Lachlan's Statement of Advice (SOA) submission clearly shows excellence in paraplanning, including demonstration of how his work and research made significant improvements to the client's situation," the judges ...

AFA expands support for paraplanners

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
... an online community, launched with a Facebook page. Any AFA members who are paraplanners or looking to move into paraplanning are welcome to join. The community will be led by Pulse national chair Hayley Knight who will be supported by a team of state ...

Advice group appoints general manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
... and Citi Smith Barney (now Morgan Stanley Wealth Management) across adviser operations, technology, transformation, paraplanning and policy. "In her almost six years at BT Financial Group, Ms Choi La Rosa worked to redesign and increase efficiencies ...

BT Financial Group proposes advice restructure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2018
... to offset this by increasing the number of portfolio adviser positions in the Partnerships model and adding extra paraplanning roles. The advice remediation team will also be boosted. The overall BT Advice leadership team will remain unchanged; however ...

New tech for the new advice world

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2018
... plan. Tracking goals, cashflow and insurance to provide the client with an instant, digital Statement of Advice, paraplanning is removed from the process. The software delivers efficiency and compliance benefits for advisers as they face a dramatically ...

Poor SoAs hindering advice process

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
... Advice documents is potentially causing financial advice clients to sign off on advice they don't actually understand. Paraplanning services provider YTML has seen more than 50 different SoA templates in the last three years, with general manager of ...

Optimo adds SMSF modelling to platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
Optimo Financial has enhanced its paraplanning software Pathfinder Online to include self-managed super fund modelling capabilities. Pathfinder, an online modelling platform, allows financial advisers to create projections for up to 20 years that cover ...

Outsourcing driving advice client engagement

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
... fact-finding, providing quotes, form lodgements, and preparing annual reports and SOAs, he added. This extends to paraplanning, marketing, and bookkeeping and management reporting functions. Conrad Francis, director and co-founder of financial planning ...

Affordable advice outsourcing at the ready

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
... FinPal's software will integrate with DBA's shared services delivery model, including business administration services, paraplanning, remote IT network management and voice-based support services. FinPal chief executive Stephen Handley said many advisers ...

As one door opens, another closes at FEW

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... planning as a valuable, flexible career for women. "A lot of women come in to the advice community, work up to the paraplanning level and then don't progress into financial planning because they don't have an advocate or mentor demonstrating the benefits ...