Two Australians will occupy seats on the nine member inaugural international Financial Planning Standards Board following the group’s creation last month to replace the ...
Another opportunity seems to have slipped by for politicians to get real about a national retirement and savings plan, writes Ray Griffin....
The last place financial planners want to be if the world’s economic plates shift is with their heads in the sand. Ray Griffin wonders whether many planners are prepared ...
National Australia Bank has provided the Australian Securities and Investments Commission with an enforceable undertaking to improve key systems and controls in its finan...
Perpetual is looking to its new global equities operation in Dublin to help it achieve a 10 per cent growth target by the end of June next year....
AXA Asia Pacific shares dropped 44 cents or 10 per cent in early trading this morning following an announcement the group had terminated talks with its French parent AXA ...
Australian Unity will accelerate its campaign to build its financial planning business in New South Wales after announcing merger plans with Grand United Friendly Society...
Australian Unity has surpassed the $2 billion funds under management barrier for the first time in its 164-year old history after reporting record inflows of $438 million...
Listed investment company, Aberdeen Leaders, has sold a significant portion of its underlying stock holdings in order to lock in unrealised market gains and pre-pay half ...
The future of Australia’s mushrooming $130 billion self-managed super funds industry is bracing itself ahead of the weekend’s Federal Election, according to the SMSF Prof...
One of Australia’s oldest listed companies Washington H Soul Pattinson and Company has bucked the industry trend away from corporate super by announcing plans to launch i...
Investors are more inclined to invest new savings in shares and managed funds than they were a year ago, according the latest ING/Melbourne Institute Household Savings an...
Perpetual Trustees Australia has hinted its funds management arm, Perpetual Investments, may consider developing an in-house international equities division by building i...
Pengana Holdings has called off talks with a subsidiary of prominent investor Robert Whyte’s Audant Investments group after the pair failed to agree on the final terms of...
Perennial Investment Partners is looking to raise the profile of its international equities arm by creating a new divisional head for the offshore asset class along with ...
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,...