AIA Australia has launched a suite of enhancements to its Priority Protection product, including an advanced crisis reinstatement feature and premium discounts for qualif...
Calls for the removal of Approved Product Lists have emerged, with some industry participants claiming they have the potential to erode the quality of advice given to cli...
CommInsure and Tower have both been named the winners of the Association of Financial Advisers/Plan for Life 2010 Life Company of the Year Awards....
BlackRock's exchange traded funds business in Australia, iShares, has reached $1 billion in assets under management three years after the launch of its first suite of int...
Valad Property Group has suffered a $50 million profit decline in the first half of this financial year, with acting chief executive Clem Salwin admitting the results wer...
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has announced a plan that will see its Fellow Chartered Financial Practitioner (FchFP) designation positioned into a pathway t...
Lobby groups with vested interests sparked the endless debate around adviser remuneration, which is clouding the issue of inadequate levels of retirement savings and chro...
Outsourced paraplanning provider Outplan has partnered with COIN to launch a training course for paraplanners, which would mainly focus on developing skills around the ef...
Although emerging markets recorded moderate results compared to other hedge fund strategies in January 2011, they have delivered the biggest annual average return over th...
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has announced Alexandra Tullio will join its wealth team as head of wealth markets....
A Sydney-based financial adviser has been banned from providing financial services in the interest of consumer protection after failing to act on conduct concerns. ...
ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of a $250 million Sydney fund manager, one of two AFSL cancellations announced by the corporate regulator....
Having divested its advice business in August, AMP is undergoing restructuring in at least four other departments amid a cost simplification program....
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...