Time is running out in the Federal government’s push to get choice of fund through Parliament in this sitting, though it remains confident of a deal with the Australian D...
George Haramis has become the latest senior executive to depart from Sealcorp....
A dramatic 217 per cent increase in new business for Colonial's mas-ter fund has helped its Australian retail operations turn in a net profit of $152 million for the 1999...
The void at the top of HSBC Asset Management has finally been filled. John Wilkinson spoke with the two new executives about their plans to make the Australian operations...
Any plans of a merger between the Life Insurance Complaints Service (LICS) and the Financial Services Complaints Resolution Scheme (FSCRS) have been scuttled, at least in...
The series of changes circulating through the finance industry has become daunting. The implications of GST and the upcoming Ralph Report loom large for all concerned but...
Six former RetireInvest staffers have joined Money Matters Financial Solutions....
MLC has unveiled a new investment system for advisers which, it says, will take the master trust concept into a new era....
The advent of on-line share trading appears to have been a harsh wake up call for stockbrokers. Zilla Efrat examines whether the Internet poses a threat to, or an opportu...
May is quickly emerging as the month of the revolving door, as a num-ber of senior executives in the funds management industry take leave of their high profile positions....
The ongoing debate over who owns the client should be put to sleep as Sue Laing rightfully points out (Money Management April 29)....
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) are in discussions with a view to merging their external complaints ...
Most Australians you speak to today are focussed on one, or both, of two upcoming events: New Year’s Eve and the Olympics. But for those of us who work in the financial s...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has thrown its weight behind the CLERP 6 reforms, but still has concerns over some of the detail....
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has reacted strongly to news that two accounting bodies intend to set up independent financial planning designations....
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,...