The continuing trend of investment management firms concentrating on either manufacturing or distribution will create a “new independent advice world”, where financial pl...

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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) believes the results of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) most recent Shadow Shopping survey reflect ...

Australian agribusiness investors have been warned to check the commission their financial planners receive and to access independent research themselves, before making a...

A senior Westpoint director has accused auditor KPMG of already knowing about the failed developer’s problems before ticking-off its reports....

Complaints by consumers against financial planners plummeted yet again in 2005 according to the industry’s chief complaints resolutions service, which has also just won a...

Challenger-owned dealer group Genesys Wealth Advisers is looking to Australia’s high school students to find the next generation of financial planners....

Since losing a large part of its advisory base, SMF-owned dealer group Lynchpin has changed its name to Wealth Managers, installed a new advisory software provider, and c...

Despite one in five financial planners falling foul of the corporate regulator in its latest shadow shopping exercise, and the resulting negative coverage in the mainstre...

Financial planners have received another bad rap from the corporate regulator, with its latest shadow shopping report concluding that close to one in five advisers gave u...

The Financial Planning Association has said the nature in which commissions were disclosed to Westpoint clients, not just the size of commission payments, should be the m...

Although financial planners think the Westpoint collapse can be blamed on a host of related parties, they are prepared to shoulder some of the responsibility....

Axa will expand its advice footprint by purchasing, through its ipac dealership, equity stakes held by advisers in South Australian-based independent business Portfolio P...

Mariner Financial has moved to boost sales of its equity release product by entering a strategic deal with three dealer groups to offer the products to clients, and launc...