MLC has decided to provide after-tax return results for a selection of its products to help financial advisers give their clients an idea of the amount of money they are ...

The Snowball Group has declared its intention to purchase Western Pacific Financial Group, which will result in scale benefits for the combined entity and a new level of ...

The corporate regulator has banned a former representative of the Lonsdale Financial Group from providing financial services for five years after finding he gave clients...

Recommendation of individually managed accounts by advisers should swell now that the planning industry has thrown off commission trails, the head of an asset management ...

The Centro Properties Group has capped off the 2005-06 financial year by reporting a record distributable operating earnings figure of $295.3 million, representing an inc...

The chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Jeffrey Lucy, has reiterated that it will not be imposing its views with respect to the fee-for-serv...

Financial advisers need to minimise the risks associated with their practices in order to realise the highest value for their businesses when looking at succession planni...

Westpac Financial Planning has embarked on a recruitment campaign involving advertising, education, an internal awareness program, and longer-term career path preparatio...

A Newspoll survey commissioned by the Investment and Financial Services Association has found Australians in general still need to improve their levels of financial liter...

Financial planning company Wealthsure will roll out Coin Software to its financial advisers in a bid to free up more of their time for clients....

The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited has succeeded in having its Australian Financial Services licence amended to allow it to provide custody services to m...

AMP Signature Super and Sunsuper Personal have emerged at the top of the list in the Heron Quality Star Ratings launched this week....

Cannex has combined its insurance research and quotation tool with the Statements of Advice preparation tool offered by real services to create an all-in-one insurance de...

Financial Wisdom has increased the size of its dealer group significantly, with a total of 410 financial advisers now under its umbrella....