The former chairman of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), Ray Griffin, has decided to leave the high profile Gunther Doyle Griffin planning group....
IWL has struck a deal to boost its stake in online broking group Sanford, moving up from around 5 per cent to nearly 10 per cent with options to further increase the stak...
Peter Polson will be retiring from his post of head of the Commonwealth Bank’s investment and insurance sales division at the end of next week....
Investment consultant Dominic McCormick has linked up with the European based Gottex group to launch a new boutique funds management organisation....
The recently appointed head of AMP, Andrew Mohl has wasted no time in giving the company a shake-up by moving “quickly to reform” the giant life and financial services co...
Sealcorp Holdings has announced that it has sold off the Wealthpoint name and fully reabsorbed Assirt Research bringing the ownership of the latter full circle after it w...
First State Investments (UK) Ltd, the UK investment arm of Colonial First State Investments Group, has entered into an agreement that will see it directly market its own ...
Industry super funds and financial planners are not supposed to mix. But that could change if Frances Magill, the chief executive of the South Australian based Statewide ...
Investors are more pessimistic about the current share market outlook than financial advisers, although both have growing expectations of a bear market, according to the ...
AMP says that it has replaced share options for its executives with a new ‘Performance Rights’ program which delivers a pre-determined number of AMP shares in three years...
One of the biggest moves in planning this year has been the emergence of Centrestone. SIMON SEGAL reports....
The industry has come out in support of an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) recommendation that regulations surrounding the use of past performance...
AMP financial planners have reacted positively to the appointment of Andrew Mohl as the permanent chief executive of the financial services giant....
AM Corporation has brought in a consulting firm to help it decide on its next strategic direction which could include putting itself on the market for a suitable buyer....
THE increasingly bitter dispute between the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) over financial planning designations has ...
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...