The managed funds industry finished off 2005 with weaker investment flows in the December quarter, according to the latest Standard & Poor’s Market Share Preliminary Find...
Analysis of financial planning industry job advertisements performed by eJobs Recruitment Specialists has shown that while ad numbers have increased in the Victorian and ...
Leading financial services industry figures involved in discussions regarding disclosure at the ASIC Summer School have agreed disclosure practices must be plainer and ea...
ASIC has reiterated its intention to scrutinise the role of financial advisers in Westpoint’s failed mezzanine property lending products after the Federal opposition leve...
The Australian Agribusiness Group has attacked the level of commissions charged for agribusiness products claiming they are too high and effectively stifling these projec...
Listed financial planning and accounting business WHK Group, formerly known as Investor Group, has continued its strategy of expansion through acquisition with the additi...
The Australasian Consumer Taskforce, comprising 18 agencies across Australia and New Zealand, has launched a four-week campaign to help consumers avoid losing money as a ...
Austock Life has acquired Brisbane-based friendly society Manchester Unity Limited, enabling the mutual life company to fulfil the demutualisation wishes of its members....
St George has entered into an agreement with investment company Kaplan Equity whereby each party will hold a 50 per cent stake in Ascalon Capital Managers....
Financial advisers have embraced the growth in self-managed superannuation funds with recent research showing just under half of them, 46 per cent, see it as a significan...
Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....
A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...