The Count Financial group will have added 50 new franchisees to its books by the end of this financial year, the group’s managing director, Barry Lambert, announced today...
The combined Commonwealth Bank/Colonial and National Australia Bank/MLC groups have confirmed their top positions as the largest Australian retail fund managers. ...
InvestorWeb Research has tightened up its review process after breaking down the review of asset classes into specific sub categories, resulting in more regular review me...
The women’s rights movement has led to a raft of change an helped create the equally balanced society we live in today. But when it comes to superannuation, women continu...
The Macquarie Bank group has announced a small increase of three per cent, for the year to the end of March 2002 but has suffered a modest loss within its Financial Servi...
The quarterly TMP Worldwide Job Index reveals the increasing confidence by employers, making the job market the most buoyant it has been for 15 months....
Norwich Union has recovered from last year’s write-downs to post a $72.1 million operating profit for the year ending December 2001....
Sixty per cent of proactive investors who put their money into managed funds seek out the services of a financial planner, the, the Challenger/ASSIRT Proactive Investors...
If the three finalists in the property securities category of this FMOTY awards agree on anything, it is that the listed property sector is unlikely to emulate in 2002 th...
Westpac has experienced a 10.2 per cent rise in half year net profit it said today and confirmed it had reached agreement to sell its consumer finance business AGC to GE ...
The flow of new funds into life insurance products remained virtually static throughout 2001, according to figures from the latest quarterly report into the life insuranc...
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 ...
Plans for the launch of the much-anticipated Australian Property Exchange (APX) are once again in limbo with ASIC refusing to provide a firm timetable to give the venture...
Recent amendments to the Family Law Act enabling divorced couples to split their superannuation brings a new level of complexity for financial advisers. NABIL WAHHAB repo...
The National Australia Bank (NAB) will reinvest $200 million into its Australian wealth management division over the next three years as part of its Positioning for Growt...
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,...