Prime Financial Group has posted a 55 per cent fall in net profit after tax for the 2009 full year, partly as a result of a 30 per cent fall in financial planning recurri...

Austock records net loss of $20.9 million for the 2008-09 financial year, while financial planning team grows funds under management in first year....

The cost of providing financial advice has not been readily measured or quantified across the industry, writes Paul Barrett....

Col Fullagar considers the plight of orphan clients who try to make an insurance claim....

In the final part of their series on the risks of margin lending, PAUL RESNIK and PETER WORCESTER conclude that planners need to stress test a client’s portfolio in order...

Unchanged profit of $1.6 million, while revenue drops 2 per cent....

IOOF Holdings has flagged the sale of its life insurance business in its 2009 annual results, in which it posted a 32.1 per cent loss in net profit to $15.85 million....

Suncorp's profit for the 2008-09 financial year fell 40 per cent in what chairman John Story called a challenging year for the group....

Dealer group suffers impairment charges of $17 million and funds under advice drop 16 per cent....

Life is messy, and investing is no exception. Dominic McCormick writes why he believes investors are not well served by current asset allocation methods....

Is the financial services industry ready to embrace a different regulatory model in circumstances where ASIC has not lived up to the expectations of some? Mike Taylor rep...