Pauline Vamos has been named the most influential person in financial services by a panel of industry peers....
The make up of professionals filling the rungs of the Top 100 ladder are changing. JULIE BENNETT investigates exactly who is in the financial planning mix of 2002....
The Top 100 might be dominated by institutional owners, but small groups continue to do well. JULIE BENNETT reports....
The number of advisers with a life background remains reasonably steady – despite all the noise about PS 146. JULIE BENNETT reports....
ROYAL & Sun Alliance (R&SA) gave birth to Guardian Financial Services in November 2001. Not yet 12 months old, the group has already attracted 98 planners and has plans t...
THE long-standing legal dispute between Morningstar and its previous managing director Graham Rich may stall despite a court order for Morningstar to file a defence by Se...
The industry has been rattling on about growth pensions for the best part of five years but, according to the experts, there are now some very compelling reasons for the ...
AUSTRALIA’S largest industry superannuation fund, REST, has launched a new corporate division in a bid to win corporate superannuation business....
When the National bought MLC earlier this year, LendLease Financial Planning had to look for a new name – and fast. After some angst, the group took on the handle “Apoge...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) are at odds following the release of a parliamentary report on the Financial Serv...
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,...