Advisers now regard hedge funds as a mainstream investment option for capital preservation and income growth and are supporting this view with their investment choices, a...

When ING unveiled its Tandem Financial Advice dealer group in August 2002, the result of merging its Lynx, Partnership Planning and AustAdvisers dealer groups, the market...

Badging’s success is unrivalled in getting planners to make use of them. Jason Spits looks at where the numbers fall....

If you’re looking for bells and whistles in a platform, you are spoiled for choice in this country. Julie Bennett looks at what’s on offer and what purpose it serves....

New opportunities have opened for advisors with the changes to the superannuation laws regarding divorce settlements....

The Securitor/PACT financial planning dealer groups will implement a price and functionality review of the Asgard master trust in an attempt to increase its market compet...

Deakin Financial Services Group has opened a new sales and administration office in Brisbane as part of its strategy to provide local, visible and accessible support for ...

AMP Henderson Global Investors senior Australian economist Simon Doyle will end his 15 year association with the group after the announcement he will join Schroder Invest...

Guardian Financial Planning was created as a haven for risk-based advisers in the face of the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) and, as Simon Segal writes, the group h...

Asgard and Macquarie Wrap have made big pushes for new business announcing boosted payments to advisers for writing new business into the investment platforms....

Australia’s funds management and life insurance groups are failing to live up to the expectations of financial advisers in key performance criteria, a new report claims....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is conducting a surveillance campaign of tied advisers that could yield results as damning as a recent report ...

Support for disclosure obligations under the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) is high, according to a Securities Institute survey, which shows only 13 per cent of adv...

American fund manager Scudder Investments has signed up an Australian consulting group, Business Health, to provide practice management support to its US based financial ...