The Financial Planning Association has reminded planners that there is one week left to enrol in the current semester's CFP intake, adding that enrolment numbers continue...
With less money going around, boutique fund managers are facing a dangerous period and those with unsustainable business structures are set to be driven out of the market...
Matthew Rowe will stay on as chairman of the Financial Planning Association board for another two-year term until November 2014....
BlackRock announced this week that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Swiss Re Private Equity Partners AG - the European private equity and infrastruct...
Rountable questions why the Government takes so long on financial services legislation but acts with speed in imposing substantially higher levies....
First State Investments has appointed two new executives to take charge of responsible investing and improve ESG....
The AIST will be lodging a further submission with the Productivity Commission reinforcing that default superannuation funds must be 'fit for purpose'....
Institute of Chartered Accountants CEO Lee White sees challenges and positives in the new limited licensing regime replacing the accountants' exemption....
SPAA concerned about the degree to which SMSFs will be levied on SuperStream....
ASIC has formed an agreement with New Zealand's FMA which will allow advisers trained in Australia to have their qualifications recognised in New Zealand and vice versa....
Count Financial has joined with BT Wrap today to announce the two companies have renewed their distribution agreement....
Avenue Capital Management's 30 financial advisers across 15 practices will become authorised representatives of IOOF's Lonsdale Financial Group, IOOF has announced....
Australian Financial Services has appointed Danielle Nugent as regional manager for Victoria and Tasmania....
The Productivity Commission's core recommendations on default funds will open up the sector to more players and reduce the primacy of industry super funds....
The Federal Opposition has criticised a deal between the Government and the Greens impacting withholding tax arrangements on MITs....
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....