The Legg Mason Australian Real Income Fund has been added to the BT Wrap platform....
Financial planners and their clients have to supplant platform providers and fund managers as the price setters in the advice equation, according to Colonial First State ...
Many significant players in the dealer group sector have reduced their financial planner numbers, though the industry remains optimistic....
Consolidation is changing the face of the financial planning dealer group sector before our eyes, while small-to-medium players continue to struggle....
Securitor's Matt Englund urges financial planners to make FOFA irrelevant by having the correct systems in place....
SFG Australia launches new managed discretionary account products into allied groups - Shadforth, Outlook and Western Pacific....
Mike Taylor asks whether the formation of BT Select and the continuing competition between BT and Count Financial reflect the end of the current dealer group model....
BT Financial Group has appointed Zenith Investment Partners as its sole external research provider, with the contract set to commence on 1 October 2012....
There was little change for the masterfunds sector over the year to March 2012, down by just 0.3 per cent, or $1.4 billion, to $433.1 billion....
BT's Mark Spiers says a letter from Count Financial CEO David Lane to Securitor and Magnitude advisers actually belittles the important role advisers play....
Westpac/BT has outlined its new financial planning approach via BT Select while Count has moved to offer Securitor planners an alternative....
Count chief executive David Lane has opened the door to Securitor planners he believes are feeling disenfranchised by the high sums paid to Count defectors....
AMP Capital has picked up a key fixed income mandate from BT Financial Group and Advance....
The Industry Super Network has urged the Productivity Commission review into default super to consider ISN-commissioned research findings that past superannuation fund pe...
Infocus Money Management has appointed Giulio Russo as head of business development, which the group says is to assist it to continue its rapid growth....
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...