Industry, government and corporate superannuation funds have been included for comparison in an updated version of a Mercer Investment Consulting superannuation fund asse...
AMP Financial Planning has for the first time added four non-AMP employer superannuation master trust providers to its approved products list....
AMP has released a free financial literacy program intended to increase consumer take-up of financial planning by reducing a perceived “knowledge gap” between consumers a...
The country’s largest dealer groups lost the most financial planners in 2004 and according to most of them, Financial Services Reform was to blame....
Insurance and wealth management giant AMP today dished out a $750 million booty to long-suffering shareholders, having posted a consolidated bottom line profit of close t...
State Governments have been called on to extend the scope of ‘choice of fund’ to cover all employees and not just those covered under Federal Awards, with one of Australi...
Australia’s largest financial planning dealer group, AMP Financial Planning, has acknowledged the ongoing popularity of industry superannuation funds by adding ten of the...
AMP Financial Planning will demand its more than 1,200 authorised representatives sit an annual exam as of next year before they can continue practicing under the banner ...
More than 20 AMP Financial Planning salaried advisers have accepted redundancy packages following the announcement last month the dealer group would be closing its employ...
AMP Financial Planning, as of next year, will demand its more than 1,000 authorised representatives sit an annual exam before they can continue practicing under the banne...
The St George Bank owned Asgard group has revamped its eWrap platform in a bid to boost its appeal to financial planners at a time when advisers are increasingly likely t...
Aon Australia has moved to streamline its platform approach, announcing BT Financial Group’s Wrap service and Asgard's eWRAP and adviserNET products as the new core platf...
While Mercer has been entrenched in the asset consulting scene for many years, it is a relatively new player in the retail research space. Freya Purnell looks at the rise...
If confirmation of the ‘cleansing’ nature of recent regulatory and legislative changes was needed then this year’s Top 100 Dealer Groups will provide clear evidence with ...
Freya Purnell looks at the effect of different advice offerings on the bottom line....
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
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....