Volume 3 Number 1

Volume 3 Issue 1

Insurance

MARC FABRIS | Comments | TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2008

Ask the average small business owner whether they insure their key people and they'll probably look at you blankly. That's because less than half will have ever even heard of the cover and only ... Ask ... Read more

Applied Financial Planning

Re-inventing financial planning

ROBERT BROWN | Comments | TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2008

Reinventing financial planning was commissioned by the Institute of Chartered Accountants (in Australia) in March 2007 to examine future directions for the financial planning industry. In the paper it ... Reinventing ... Read more

Financing succession - Funding your equity stake

MALCOLM ARNOLD | Comments | TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2008

Whether you're a Generation X or Y financial planner or a current financial planning business owner, a great deal of planning is required in order to be successful in your succession strategy. As ... Whether ... Read more

Values based advice: How to create a living legacy

ROBERT MUSGRAVE | Comments | TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2008

Over the next 40 years, but predominately the next 30 years, Australians will experience the greatest intergenerational transfer of wealth ever known. Estimates indicate about $600 billion will be transferred ... Over ... Read more

New thinking needed for the workplace in the 'war for talent'

LARRY GOULD | Comments | TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2008

Australian businesses and financial advisory firms in particular face the most radical transformation in leadership and work practices in decades as they prepare for the impending "war for talent". Australian ... Read more

Secrets to creating great referral relationships: Part 1

DANI PEER | Comments | TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2008

There is no formula for a successful referral relationship in the nascent science of practice management. This is because the "X" factor plays a major part even though it is too often left ... Read more

Developing an operating model provides clarity for the priorities of a client entric advice business

DAVID FOX | Comments | TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2008

"A business operating model describes the capabilities that exist within an organisation including customer facing, infrastructural and management components". This is typically how a business ... "A ... Read more

Compliance

ASIC and Westpoint: The mechanics of a collapsing mezzanine

GERARD MAGNER , MELANIE YOUNIS | Comments | TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2008

The collapse of the Westpoint group and the loss of many millions of dollars of investors' funds has been the subject of much publicity. ASIC has recently announced that it will commence legal action ... The ... Read more

Latest News


CountPlus firm makes acquisition KARREN VERGARA A CountPlus member firm has acquired the accounting revenues of a boutique advice firm.	Managed accounts inch to $80bn KARREN VERGARA Managed accounts assets continue to grow steadily, having hit nearly $80 billion despite setbacks caused by COVID-19.

Advice too expensive, hard to access: FPA ALLY SELBY New research has revealed COVID-19 has altered Australian spending behaviour, with more households in a fragile financial position than ever before and facing reduced access to financial advice.	CFS partnership to sustain advice industry ANNABELLE DICKSON Colonial First State has entered into a partnership with graduate coaching provider Striver in order to drive graduates into the financial advice industry.

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