The float of Consolidated Financial Services (CFS) is scheduled for late September or early October now that an agreement has been reached between all the shareholders of...
US funds management giant Massachusetts Financial Services (MFS) has launched its first retail offering into the Australian market via a rebadged product which carries th...
Deutsche Funds Management (DFM) is about to launch what it believes are Australia's first themed international funds....
John Robert Houghton, a former director of Houghton & Associates, last week received a two year jail sentence after pleading guilty to 26 charges of fraudently missapropr...
Up to 5000 existing DIY funds may have to change their structure if they continue with a single trustee who is also the fund’s single member....
Global spending on information technology to attract and keep customers is growing at more than 40 per cent a year and it’s not hard to see why....
Rules regarding membership, compliance and administration of self-managed superannuation funds (SMFs) are well on the way to being clarified....
At least 300 insurance brokers are trading illegally, according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....
AMP has chosen a new boss for its New Zealand financial services business following general manager Rodney Cooke’s promotion to director of group finance at the group’s U...
If the burgeoning sector evolving around employing and outsourcing paraplanners is to be believed, there’s a gold rush going on. “Good people” are talked of in hushed ton...
The financial planning community strongly supports the introduction of a goods and services tax in Australia, according to a recent survey. ...
Several former Norwich executives have launched a new Melbourne-based investment company to offer a retail unit trust dealing in wholesale property trusts....
How much will it cost planners to changeover their back office in order to offer wrap services?...
Proposed changes to the way life insurance companies are taxed will result in higher levels of complexity for the industry and increased costs to policy holders. ...
Australia's biggest companies have had their day on the stock market and investors should be looking to smaller companies for stronger growth....
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...