Financial planners should be licensed under the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) like any other industry that provides limited or other tax agent services, according to the ...
Professional Investment Holdings will soon join the likes of competitors Count Financial and WHK, becoming a listed entity via its merger with Centrepoint Alliance....
The possibility of a single professional association arose during several sessions at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) national conference, one of which included ...
WHK Horwath to take on global branding of Crowe Horwath in 2011....
The Financial Planning Association's move towards professionalism could turn out to be very costly for the organisation, writes Mike Taylor....
QIC will acquire Queensland Motorways Limited from the Queensland Government....
The limited nature of the adviser/client relationship with respect to intra-fund advice may make it difficult to impose a uniform interpretation of fiduciary duty, accord...
The Board of the Financial Planning Association has proposed significant changes to the make-up of the association, which would see individual financial planners given pr...
A strong flow of new business has delivered a solid result to Tower Australia Limited....
The AFA has moved to the business planning stage of a pro-advice advertising campaign on the back of strong financial support from members....
IOOF chief Chris Kelaher says the company remains acquisitive, describing its play for AXA’s North as opportunistic, not strategic....
New Financial Services Council research has revealed the degree to which Australia’s retirement savings gap has widened....
J.P. Morgan Treasury & Securities Services has completed a migration of direct and master custody clients from ANZ Custodian Services less than a year after its acqui...
Regulators perpetually struggle to create a healthy environment for the provision of financial advice, however, Robert Keavney identifies several areas where they have mi...
The investment research team at ANZ-owned RI Advice Group, led by Dinyar Irani, is leaving to set up a portfolio construction company in partnership with Ray Miles' Fortn...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
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....