Financial advisers are in for a tough time over the next five to ten years, as pension products offered directly through industry superannuation funds take a larger slice...
The level of outstanding loans relating to margin lending accounts, as well as the number of margin lending clients, have grown dramatically in the past year. PRUE MOODIE...
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 ...
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) used a meeting last week of the Financial Services Reform (FSR) Implementation Consultative Committee to call for clarificatio...
Rising prices and changes to product design are front of mind in the risk insurance industry, JOHN WILKINSON found....
ROYAL & Sun Alliance (R&SA) gave birth to Guardian Financial Services in November 2001. Not yet 12 months old, the group has already attracted 98 planners and has plans t...
IN THE middle of last week, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) released a report which was a review of the disclosure of fees and charges within ...
The make up of professionals filling the rungs of the Top 100 ladder are changing. JULIE BENNETT investigates exactly who is in the financial planning mix of 2002....
FINANCIAL Planners could be forced to show in Product Disclosure Statements (PDSs) all the fees and commissions they receive from selling funds management products under ...
DAVID Attenborough, looking at the financial planning landscape in the early 1990s, would have noted how the scene was dominated by relatively small, independent packs of...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained orders in the New South Wales Supreme Court to restrain a former Saxby Bridge employee from provi...
AN ALLIANCE of high-net-worth investors has launched a stinging criticism of the quality of the financial advice they receive and accused financial planners of being tain...
Up to 160 of ING’s financial advisers remain uncertain about their future within the Dutch giant after it completed the restructure of its financial planning businesses w...
CHIFLEY Financial Planning will lose four of its planners after they decided to leave the group, ending a dispute over pay and averting further action by the planners....
While choice of funds makes its way back onto the agenda, TOM COLLINS says the issue of self interest must be tackled or the industry faces the possibility of further gov...
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...