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....
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,...