Announced today, we celebrate the seventh annual FS Power50, highlighting the 50 most influential financial advisers in Australia. Compiling such a list is no mean feat; the four rounds of due diligence conducted on finalists alone is monumental. After ... Read more

A lot can happen in four years - just ask UniSuper private client adviser Nicky Dwyer CFP®. In the last four years she has changed jobs, started a family and studied for - and attained - her Certified Financial Planner certification. In her own ... Read more

How am I going to get through 2020? It was the question on everyone's lips at the recent Financial Planning Association of Australia Professionals Congress. We all know the advice landscape is changing but knowing how to respond is a whole other ... Read more

In 1991, Pitcher Partners was the first new accounting and advisory practice to be established in Australia in more than 20 years. Despite the financial turmoil gripping the country at the time, the firm - established by 14 founding partners, including ... Read more

Growing up in rural New South Wales, Jodie Douglas knew early on she wanted to work with animals. Finishing high school, she began studying veterinary nursing. This was the bridge she needed to get into veterinary science, leading to a lengthy, fulfilling ... Read more

Commonwealth Bank or the Bank of NSW. Dismissing her 16-year old son's "pipe dream" of becoming a professional golfer, those were the options Peter Nonnenmacher's mother put to him when he left school in the late 1970s. Choosing the Bank of NSW - now ... Read more

Despite years of talking about increasing the reach of advice, it has stagnated at two in 10 Australians and remained in this ball park for some time. In the same vein, the number of women opting for a career in financial advice has also mired around ... Read more

Managing director, principal adviser and current national president of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) Marc Bineham bought Noall & Co in 1997. At the time the business specialised predominantly in risk advice - something that was rather ... Read more

Peita Diamantidis, managing director of Caboodle Financial Services, doesn't think of herself as a financial adviser. She is a storyteller; weaving clients' financial situations with their lifestyle goals to formulate a narrative that will see ... Read more

One of few financial advisers who can say they've been in the industry since day one, Deborah Kent has not only witnessed immense change, but also shaped it, dedicating much of her time - particularly after hours - to industry advocacy. Entering ... Read more