Research commissioned by the Investment and Financial Services Association has suggested policy and legislative changes encouraging the export of Australian financial ser...
China’s booming economy represents significant opportunities for Australian financial services organisations large and small, according to a recent study completed by Aus...
The nation’s largest financial planning dealer group, Professional Investment Services (PIS), has entered an agreement to purchase the external advisory business of Bongi...
There is cautious optimism within the industry that a proposed consumer ‘compensation’ fund levy has been dropped from newly announced legislation mandating financial pla...
A Victorian-based company and holder of an Australian Financial Services Licence that acted as trustee for a number of superannuation funds, Top Quartile Management Limit...
The Supreme Court of NSW has granted orders sought by the corporate regulator preventing a Sydney-based financial planner from leaving the country and liquidating his ass...
Financial planning dealer group Australian Financial Services Group has signed a heads of agreement to acquire a strategic stake in The Salisbury Group for an undisclosed...
The Financial Services Institute of Australia (Finsia) is to sell its business education division to global education provider Kaplan for $36 million....
WB Financial Management claims to have become the first independently owned dealer group in Australia to achieve an international standard quality assurance certificate t...
A former financial planner has faced the Brisbane Magistrates Court on seven fraud charges relating to activities that left his clients more than $126,000 out of pocket....
The Boutique Financial Planning Principals Group is calling for a standard one-page document of conflicts of interest to be developed for inclusion on the front page of a...
The Financial Planning Association has meted out the most severe punishment against a Western Australian-based planner and planning practice regarding advice about Westpo...
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,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...