Mike Taylor writes that the existence of large payments and the perception that a sales culture continues to exist in the financial planning space represents a dangerous ...
With less money going around, boutique fund managers are facing a dangerous period and those with unsustainable business structures are set to be driven out of the market...
BT Financial Group has appointed Adam McGuren as the national manager of Licensee Select....
Count Financial has joined with BT Wrap today to announce the two companies have renewed their distribution agreement....
Count Financial added 24 authorised representatives and nine financial planning practices to its network in June....
BT Wrap has secured an ongoing relationship with SFG Australia - the result of the merger between Snowball and Shadforths....
The new limited licensing regime for accountants has received widespread support from the financial services industry....
With corporate blow-ups becoming commonplace and ‘short-termism’ dominating investment markets, ESG issues are more relevant than ever. ...
In a time of unprecedented regulatory change and market upheaval facing financial advisers, financial services licensees are going to have to adapt along with advisers to...
After a sizeable dip in FUM in 2011, the total platform market ended the year to 31 March 2012 almost unchanged....
Disillusionment with the funds management industry and a hunger for transparency among clients is fuelling a move towards direct equities....
Retail funds grew 4.6 per cent in the March quarter to $510 billion but were still down slightly over a 12-month period, according to Plan For Life data....
Piers Bolger believes that emerging market debt will continue to grow in prominence and provide an alternative debt solution to developed market economies....
The extent of the current dealer group turf war has been revealed by new Wealth Insights research revealing around 44 per cent of the financial planners surveyed had been...
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has applied a four-star 'new' rating to the BT Global Fixed Interest Wholesale Fund, managed by BT Investment Management....
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 ...