AXA has launched a scheme to buy clients from financial planners and pass them on to new planners using buyer of last resort principles....
Avanteos chief executive Mark Papendieck will step down from the group after concluding his three year employment contract and will be replaced by former Commonwealth Ban...
The new head of retail at JB Were Investment Management (Were), Gordon Thoms, has rejected any moves to become a platform provider and says the group would look for new o...
OFM Investment Group is conducting due diligence on a new administration outsource provider after mutually agreeing to part with incumbent provider, State Trustees, follo...
Property group Becton has launched the first retail mezzanine fund for property investment aimed at the self-managed superannuation fund market but denies the move is des...
The Victorian Government will aim to create a new ministerial position for ‘services’ to forge a better link between itself and the financial services industry after comp...
Australian Unity has restructured its life insurance operations, including its bond products, and has spun to divisions out into a new company called Australian Unity Inv...
AXA is to close its Altus dealer group as part of a rationalisation of financial planning brands....
PremiumChoice platform is set to target Western and South Australia in a bid to expand the number of dealer groups using its services by 30 per cent over the next 12 mont...
MLC has outlined a number of changes to its Flexiplan investment platform including renaming it to MasterKey Custom, changing the fee structure, expanding the investment ...
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 ...
Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....
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,...