St George Bank owned dealer Securitor has lost planning group Aspire Financial Services after the Melbourne-based boutique struck a deal with Snowball Group - a move the ...
The Coalition has made a $21 million pledge towards improving financial literacy standards as both parties scramble for voter sentiment on the eve of the Federal Election...
Westpac has beefed up its financial advice team following the promotion of BT Financial Group general manager distribution and key executive within the group’s advice div...
VicSuper has become the first superannuation provider to adopt a dollar based disclosure model and has also upped the competitive ante by declaring a new cap on fees char...
Financial services software group FinaMetrica has launched what it claims is Australia’s first web-based risk tolerance assessment tool for consumers....
The financial services arm of Promina, Asteron is aiming to tackle Australia’s under-insurance problem by combining wealth creation and risk insurance into a single platf...
The Financial Planning Association has backed a Labor party bid to step up the pressure on advisers over soft dollar commissions with a strict regulatory crackdown....
Mortgage brokers are the latest target in the soft dollar disclosure crusade with the Mortgage Industry Association of Australia (MIAA) unveiling a new code requiring bro...
ING Australia has created four new business units and restructured its executive line-up as part of a strategy to better capitalise on its major distribution channels....
BT Financial Group has announced its chief executive David Clarke will step down as head of the group in February to pursue “wider business interests”, two years after ta...
Retail industry superannuation fund REST is actively examining options for the provision of financial advice to members....
Australia's biggest retailer Coles Myer is considering offering financial planning services to customers, according to chief executive John Fletcher....
Financial planning business management group CARM has struck a deal with Professional Investment Services to provide the dealer firm’s network of over 1,200 planners with...
MLC has extended its range of adviser support offerings to external planners for the first time following the group rolling out its previously internally offered services...
Tower Limited is to merge it’s two New Zealand businesses in a reverse move to last week’s proposal to split its Australian operations through a plan to separately list i...
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,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...