CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Financial planning

The AFA has received an influx of enrolments for its recently-rebuilt education course, which it says shows an acceptance from advisers that standards have been raised. ...

Financial planning

Dealer group heads expect to see the initial influx of accountants to planning under the new licensing regime....

image
Financial planning

Planners are pre-empting formal changes to education standards from regulators and licensees with enrolments in courses at their highest figures for the start of a new ca...

image
Accounting

Financial advisers should require more than one semester unit in tax law if they want to be licensed to provide tax advice, the Institute of Public Accountants believes....

image
Financial planning

Australian Unity has completed its acquisition of dealer group, Premium Wealth Management....

image
Financial planning

A government department, major bank and agribusiness scheme promoter have challenged the narrative that financial planners were complicit in the collapse of the forestry ...

image
Superannuation

New survey reveals that super fund CEOs need to accept responsibility for the actions of their officers and executives....

image
Life/Risk

A South African listed property fund is continuing its push into the Australian market, with the purchase of its first property in Victoria....

image
Financial planning

MDS Financial signals further acquisitions after completing its transaction with Sequoia Financial to gain a solid foothold in the SMSF sector....

image
Financial planning

The FPA’s 11th hour FPEC “gift” rewarded in Parliamentry Committee’s final report....

image
Life/Risk

Centrepoint Alliance has signed deals with two major banks to boost the finance facility for its insurance premium funding business claiming it can offer better terms und...

image
Financial planning

Total Financial Solutions has signed an agreement with Ibbotson Associates to act as investment manager for its separately managed accounts and to provide investment cons...

image
Financial planning

Platform provider OneVue has signed a memorandum of understanding with computer hardware and software provider Oracle to develop an end-to-end fund services offering pitc...

image
Editorial

In the fifth in a series on equity investing, Hugh Young discusses how investors can lose their way with over-ambition. ...

image
Financial planning

Hastings Funds Management continues its infrastructure debt push via key Japanese link. ...

sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

4 months ago

Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

4 weeks 1 day ago

A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

3 weeks ago

Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

1 week 6 days ago