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Leading privately owned financial planning AFSL, FYG Planners is pleased to announce the group’s funds under management surpassed $2 billion during the 2016 calendar year. At the start of 2016 FYG had 35 firms and 58 advisers across six states and territories with $1.9 billion under management (at Sep 2015). By the end of 2016  FYG Planners had grown to 41 […]

Privately owned AFSL, FYG Planners, is pleased to announce strong growth in new firms joining the financial planning dealer group in 2016. Across the year seven new firms joined FYG Planners with another already joining in mid January 2017. Managing Director, Peter Mancell said it was a pleasing year and FYG Planners expects to see similar […]

2016 Year In Review

January 24, 2017

Economic Overview The dangers of basing investment strategies on media forecasts were highlighted dramatically in 2016 as the outcome of major world events and the market reaction to them confounded pundits. The major news event was Donald Trump’s US presidential election win. The Republican outsider defeated Democrat Hilary Clinton on a platform that tapped into […]

FYG Planners are pleased to announce Blue Diamond Financial of Bella Vista in Sydney have joined our privately owned financial services licensee. Blue Diamond Financial is a boutique financial planning practice owned and operated by Martin Cossettini. Martin established Blue Diamond Financial in 2016 with the vision of helping individuals, families and business owners achieve their lifestyle goals and improve their financial position, by […]

Investment Costs

January 3, 2017

Keeping investment costs low are a significantly important part of what your financial adviser does. The reason investment costs are important is because they drag on your investment returns. So if your financial adviser is investing your portfolio in high fee investment funds your money essentially has to work harder to overcome those fees and catch up to funds […]