New professionalism standards lift the bar on best practice in financial advice

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Centric Wealth has taken the lead in the financial advice industry by releasing its own formalised standards for best practice financial advice. The Centric Wealth Professionalism in Financial Advice Standards... Read more continue reading

Clients happy with advisers’ trustworthiness and knowledge

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The latest Lifeplan ICFS Financial Advice Satisfaction Index shows that investors are satisfied with the trustworthiness and knowledge of their financial advisers, although they feel somewhat pessimistic about the performance... Read more continue reading

IRESS appointed Count’s strategic software partner

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Following an extensive review of potential software solutions, Count Financial Limited (Count) has selected IRESS Market Technology Limited (IRESS) as its strategic software partner. IRESS’ wealth management platform XPLAN will... Read more continue reading

Professionalism and Ethics in Financial Planning

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Financial planning advice is becoming increasingly relevant to the economic objectives of Australians. However, the evidence suggests there are numerous ethical risks related to the provision of that advice and... Read more continue reading

Greetings from the AFA conference

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This is my first of what should be a brief but regular contribution to AdviserVoice, written from the point of view of a practicing self Licensed Adviser.  Naturally other ‘Gurus’... Read more continue reading

Research Houses! All talk but very little value!

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Financial planners continue to question the relevance of research houses, yet we still see little evidence of change in the service offering from research houses to keep pace with the... Read more continue reading

Top Five Questions Investors Ask

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The GFC and subsequent volatility has increased the number of market presentations my team and I have been asked to do for the clients of financial planners. I thought you’d... Read more continue reading

Why advisers have nothing to fear from technology

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At the danger of invoking a collective moan of discontent from all Australian financial advisers, I want to begin this post on the role of technology in your industry by... Read more continue reading

US FPA says financial planning’s future remains uncertain

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Nearly 2500 people from the financial planning community from around the world descended on Denver for the US FPA conference. It covered almost 5 days of education, networking, recognition and... Read more continue reading

BOQ selects CMC Markets Stockbroking to provide online share trading service

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Over 600,000 BOQ customers set to benefit from new user-friendly trading platform with highly competitive brokerage rates The new relationship strengthens CMC Markets Stockbroking partnership growth strategy BOQ has today... Read more continue reading