Former sole director of Sonray Capital Markets, Russell Andrew Johnson, has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail after pleading guilty to seven charges last yea...
With post-retirement planning emerging as a major issue in 2014, Andrew Gale argues that there needs to be less focus on products and more focus on advice-based solutions...
ASFA suggests the development of specialised accreditation for planners providing retirement and post-retirement advice....
No-one likes a surprise when wrestling with tax and superannuation, and financial planners heading towards the end of financial year seem primed on what is about to chang...
AXA Investment Managers has picked up a key mandate, announcing that Mercer's investment business in Australia has allocated $150 million to AXA IM's global investment gr...
Synchron has actioned growing its planner numbers on the basis of ASIC’s no-action approach to grandfathering....
Legg Mason has recruited Colin Taylor away from JP Morgan to become Director of Sales, based in Melbourne. ...
ASIC begins legal proceedings over failed takeover bid...
The attributes that companies are seeking in financial planners are drastically changing, with sales no longer a must-have skill, writes Milana Pokrajac. ...
Former AustralianSuper chair and now NAB/MLC director receives AIST Trustee Lifetime Achievement Award. ...
Satisfaction from bank customers is at an 18-year high, but that could be about to change....
Regulator permanently bans former authorised representative and director of an investment trustee for misleading and deceptive conduct....
Independent investment manager Dalton Nicol Reid has appointed Robert White as its new chief executive officer and head of distribution after Harley Dalton’s departure....
Business of securities adviser subject to an enforceable undertaking has licence cancelled....
AIST president and chair of CareSuper, Cate Wood, has been appointed to replace Sandy Grant as chair of CareSuper....
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...