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FPA moves to improve adviser mental health

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has launched a free health and wellbeing program providing confidential support from psychologists and counsellors to its members. The FPA Wellbeing program comes amid unprecedented changes in the ...

Financial tech firm refocuses strategy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
An ASX-listed financial planning technology company will reconfigure its strategy following an unsuccessful pilot partnership with Commonwealth Financial Planning. Intiger will refocus its strategy on developing and marketing its BOOM software after ...

ANZ changes advice model, cuts Prime Access

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2019
... The big four bank announced it will change the way it provides ongoing financial advice to customers via ANZ Financial Planning. As of today, the Prime Access financial advice service will no longer be offered to new customers and will be phased out ...

Financial advisers weigh in on factor investing

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... developing their own unique investment approach for every individual client are numbered - if not extinct already." Financial planning group Shadforth advocates factoring investing strategies - but calls it "evidenced-based investing." Shadforth private ...

Advisers forgo charitable conversations: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... general manager Emma Sakellaris says discussing clients' philanthropic objectives should be a key component of financial planning conversations - not just for clients considered to be wealthy. It has the potential to result in stronger client relationships ...

Mercer names administration services lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... department in 2004 and returned in May 2010 as a financial advice leader. She was the chief executive of the Financial Planning Association of Australia between 2016 and 2010. Her successor previously held senior roles at Superpartners across client ...

Advice and accounting align post-Royal Commission: CountPlus

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... the future for every $100 a firm brings in, $60 will be from accounting services. The balance will come from financial planning and self-managed super fund services. It also found that most Australians who paid for advice received good value in return. ...

Midwinter acquires InvestmentLink

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
Midwinter announced changes to its leadership team after completing the acquisition of financial planning software provider InvestmentLink. InvestmentLink contains over 4.4 million client accounts across 300 superannuation and managed funds. It has ...

Advice practice supply outweighs demand

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
... clients could sell for up to 1 times. "Therefore, the difference today between the valuation of a high-quality financial planning practice compared to a conventional one is possibly up to 1.5 times the recurring revenue. Before 2018 it would have been ...

SMSF wind-ups spike: ATO

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
... last five years - reaching a high of 1,102,730 last year. Liam Shorte, director and SMSF specialist at Verante Financial Planning, said these numbers come after an ATO crackdown on non-reporting SMSFs. He further explained the increase in SMSF wind-ups ...