The Trust Company of Australia has been appointed as the approved trustee for superannuation vehicles previously administered by Beacon Funds Management (BFM), after BFM ...
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has forced Beacon Funds Management (BFM) to transfer the funds under its trusteeship to a new approved trustee....
THE Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) will subject itself to its own regulatory gaze following the appointment of John Doble, who joins APRA next month to...
Four years and 50 columns ago, TOM COLLINS first graced the pages of Money Management. Retracing his steps has led him to conclude that not too much has changed....
Western Australian credit unions, State West and Health Credit, will merge their financial planning arms as part of a wider merger of the two groups....
How much does the planner sitting next to you earn? Are they more valuable than you? The easiest way to measure the monetary worth of a financial planner is by their job ...
The Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) looks set to result in further compliance and legislative costs to superannuation funds offering member investment choice, warns ...
Australian self managed superannuation fund (SMSF) trustees who have fail to lodge regulatory returns for two or more years could face possible fund closures or legal act...
Fees in retail superannuation funds continue to be almost double that of other sectors of the superannuation industry despite remaining static since 1999, according to a ...
A joint venture between three Tasmanian financial services firms – Quadrant Superannuation, Connect Financial Planning and Perpetual Trustees Tasmania - has seen the laun...
The financial services industry has little to fear from the re-election of a Howard Liberal Government notwithstanding the fact that the Minister for Financial Services, ...
The Financial Services sector would notice little immediate difference if the Australian Labor Party took office after November 10. Why? Because the ALP believes that the...
News round up – 13<super>th</super> September 2001...
Former Mercantile Mutual managing director Rodney Atfield has joined the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) as an independent member of the Board....
There is a good chance the Financial Services Reform Bill will get its second reading tonight in the House of Representatives, while the Superannuation Choice of Funds Bi...
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,...