Independent advisers are coming under growing pressure as several industry funds look to setting up their own financial planning bodies....

Macquarie has launched what it believes is the first venture capital fund aimed directly at financial advisers....

The unpopular Life Insurance Conduct and Disclosure (LICD) Bill has been scrapped by the Federal Government....

Should financial planners advise on direct shares?...

Difficulties in matching product features with client needs in complex areas of risk coverage like trauma mean advisers should seek specialist alliances, writes Pauline F...

Leading insurer AMP Life will launch a series of workshops and seminars over the next few weeks to help financial advisers to better understand the risk insurance needs o...

High profile investment researcher Stephen van Eyk has backed a new research outfit aimed at sifting the good from the bad in tax-effective agribusiness investments....

ANZ Funds Management (ANZFM) has established a new distribution network which more closely resembles that of the other major banks....

One of the keys to growing your business without sacrificing your personal life is to provide a wider range of services to fewer clients, writes Robert Ossey....

Kerry Packer’s recent funds management acquisitions look set to turn the distribution of retail financial services on its head....

The fallout from the lengthy, convoluted and occasionally acrimonious merger last year between New Zealand's two largest financial adviser bodies continues....

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has axed plans to merge with the Financial Planning Association (FPA), citing irreconcilable differences in membership bases....