Asgard has introduced a number of measures aimed at motivating advisers to have a closer look at its new wrap service, the eWRAP....
Master trust fee levels will ultimately be determined by investors, through innovations such as Colonial’s FirstChoice master trust. KATE KACHOR reports....
The arrival of separate accounts will put further pressure on master trusts to reduce fees. As FIONA MOORE reports, master trusts could learn from separately managed acco...
IOOF members have voted overwhelmingly to end the friendly status of the organisation and become a listed company....
Australian Unity acting group managing director Murray Cambell has reacted angrily to a report in the financial press yesterday on speculation that Australian Unity was l...
Economic expectations revealing positive future prospects for the Australian dollar, along with the arrival of currency hedged funds, could mean international currency in...
The St George Bank has filled its Investment Services chief executive position, vacated by the sudden departure of Richard Cawsey, with Yorkshire Bank chief operating off...
The proposed merger between the Australian Retirement Incomes Streams Association (ARISA) and the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) will go ahead after...
Australian Unity group managing director and chief executive officer Mark Sibree has stepped down from the top post effective immediately after the group announced change...
More than 50 investors who bought into a property scheme in North Queensland are mounting cases against an assortment of individual financial advisers, a dealer group, so...
Besieged former Harts Australasia executive chairman Steve Hart has denied he is now working as an unpaid non listed director of a Queensland based consultancy group run ...
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) is preparing to launch a ratings system for managed funds in a move that will bolster its already considerable push into the Australian funds mana...
Gearing is not for all investors, and advisers that recommend gearing inappropriately should expect to face the consequences. GEOFF DAVEY looks at the fate of the client,...
Putting together tax strategies for clients is one area of the financial planning service which may require a helping hand. Technology can be one solution, and a platform...
The former managing director of Chifley Financial Services’ financial planning division, Peter Dawson, has resurfaced in the financial services industry for the first tim...
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...