By Andrew Hobbs | The Australian Financial Review – 13 May 2025
It seems like the financial planning sector could be, well, a lot better planned.
Just as the demand for planners is forecast to surge as the Baby Boomers and Generation X plough on to retirement, the universities that offer the courses needed to train them are cutting them.
That has the sector, which is now recognised as a profession in its own right after the scandals exposed by
the Hayne royal commission started a major clean-up and reorganisation, frantically pushing to find a
solution.
The problem comes down to numbers as much as anything else.
