A South Australian financial adviser has been sentenced to over two years jail term after an investigation conducted by the Australian Securities and Investments Commissi...
Good estate planning aims to preserve and transfer your wealth to the next generation as tax effectively as possible. One of the tools that can help clients achieve this ...
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is aiming to increase its financial planner numbers by 200 over the next 18 months and reduce the number of products offered by t...
At a time when advisers are under pressure because of negative returns, Jack Houwing and Mike Fitzpatrick argue that estate planning presents a business development oppor...
More than 80 per cent of do-it-yourself (DIY) super fund investors believe their accountant or financial adviser will be held responsible if their fund breaches super leg...
Consistent performance combined with low volatility enabled Basis Capital to be rated the top InvestorWeb six star fund manager for hedge funds....
The financial planning industry in the UK is in a state of flux. Lisa Bowman reports....
Australian Liberal Party Senator John Watson has criticised the financial planning industry, labelling it one of the significant weaknesses in Australia’s superannuation ...
When is gearing okay? When the client understands what they are getting into and agrees it is an acceptable strategy. Paul Resnik reports....
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned former financial adviser David Paul Mudge from acting as a representative of a securiti...
Former Burnie-based insurance agent and financial adviser Joachim Prehn, who had been sentenced to six years jail last year by the Supreme Court of Tasmania, has successf...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a New South Wales investment adviser from providing any financial advice after he misap...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a South Australian financial adviser from acting as a representative of a securities dealer or of a...
Australian Skandia will launch a new corporate superannuation service targeting independent financial advisers through its bundled product Skandia One next month....
Advisers now regard hedge funds as a mainstream investment option for capital preservation and income growth and are supporting this view with their investment choices, a...
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...