Founder and former chief executive of Finovia Group, Geoff Pritchard, has joined Elixir Consulting as a business coach to service the company's Melbourne and Perth market...
Following its launch last year, broking and advisory firm Octa Phillip Financial Group has been rebranded as PhillipCapital in line with the commencement of its parent co...
Defence Bank - the mutual bank formed out of the old Defence Force Credit Union - has established Australia's first video call centre at its Melbourne head office....
Elan Miller has been appointed senior portfolio manager of Pengana Capital's Australian Equities Market Neutral Fund....
AMP announces former Tynan Mackenzie boss Paul Robertson as new MD of Genesys....
Some older planners are refusing to sell and instead choosing to live off their commissions income indefinitely, according to Kenyon Partners chief executive Paul Tynan....
Infocus Group founder Darren Steinhardt will assume the role of chairman following the departure of Barrie Adams at the company's December board meeting....
The clear lack of competition in the mortgage broking space has been highlighted once again by the Commonwealth Bank increasing its stake in Aussie Home Loans to 80 per c...
Moves by key stakeholder Pyne Gould appear certain to generate change at ratings house van Eyk...
FPA chief executive Mark Rantall counters Federal Opposition doubts by arguing there is a genuine need to enshrine the term 'financial planner/adviser' in law....
Apart from volatile markets and investor sentiment, this year has also seen major policy developments, new investment trends and key career and business moves. Tim Stewar...
The launch of a national curriculum for financial planning degrees by the Financial Planning Education Council was a major win for the industry in 2012....
The Financial Services Council's position on life insurance churn proved controversial, attracting criticism from the likes of Synchron's Don Trapnell....
Richard Klipin made a shock exit from the Association of Financial Advisers to join ANZ-owned dealer group millennium3 in 2012....
The cross-selling of insurance and other products by the major banks may become an issue as the Government moves towards the so-called "auto-consolidation" of multiple su...
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....