CHAIRMAN

Financial planning

Take-over offer extended as Equity Trustees faces regulatory approval and low initial interest....

image
Superannuation

The Property Investment Professionals of Australia (PIPA) has welcomed the findings of the regulator’s SMSF Taskforce, but says trustees still require specialised propert...

image
Financial planning

Financial advisers have been listed as the dominant distributors of retail structured products in Australia by research undertaken by IOSCO. ...

image
Financial planning

Fashion-backed private equity firm takes stake in iconic Australian brand, R.M. Williams. ...

image
Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has appointed three new board directors, including Geoff Lloyd, FSC director from 2008-10....

image
Financial planning

The Government’s failure to adequately respond to industry representations concerning the reverse mortgage sector has continued to affect supply in the sector, according ...

image
Financial planning

Superannuation fund legalsuper has changed asset consultants, relinquishing JANA in favour of Towers Watson....

image
Financial planning

More than a dozen AFS practices have left the dealer group, with eight migrating to ANZ with others understood to have gone to BT and InFocus....

image
Financial planning

Greg Johnson from TAL discusses how advisers can easily use social media to promote customer engagement....

image
People & Products

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank managing director's term extended by two years....

image
Superannuation

SMSFs should be responsible for their wins and losses, which is why there should be no special statutory safety net for them when it comes to fraud, according to Challeng...

image
Financial planning

The regulator has warned the public to be wary of an email claiming to be from Sydney Credit Union which contains reference to ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft....

image
Editorial

“If you don’t think financial advice on life insurance is a problem area for ASIC and for industry, please think again.” ...

image
Financial planning

Equity Trustees writes to Trust Company shareholders claiming the company’s private client business has been underperforming....

image
Funds management

The ex-director of Astarra AM has been banned for life after contributing to the collapse of Trio Capital by failing to comply with financial services law. ...

image
sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

1 day 7 hours ago

Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

5 days 13 hours ago

It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

3 weeks 3 days ago

Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

2 weeks 5 days ago

A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

4 days 11 hours ago

Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

3 days 14 hours ago