Lifestyle planning firm Life by Design has rolled out a series of tool kits to advisers providing them with a process for offering lifestyle advice and the ability to inc...
Financial planning software provider Xplan Technology will integrate the risk profiling system of FinaMetrica (formerly ProQuest) after the two groups signed a deal to me...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has appointed a new executive director of enforcement, Jan Redfern, to head-up the department responsible for ...
Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has kicked-off an absolute return fund - the Barclays Global Markets Fund - after identifying demand from financial planners for an ‘all w...
Vanguard Investments has been awarded a five star ranking for its 10 funds currently available in the market and has also been rated ‘very strong’ across all business sec...
“Smart” financial planners will have made New Year’s Resolutions to change the way they run their business to meet consumer and regulatory expectations, according to Pres...
The prevalence of the use of model portfolios by financial planners and advisers has been confirmed by Assirt research which found 47 per cent indicating they used model ...
David Haintz sees himself as one of the younger breed in the Australian financial planning industry – something he says is reflected in the approach Haintz Financial Serv...
Each year, the number of applications Money Management receives for one of the industry’s most prestigious awards increases. And this year was no exception....
Money Management’s second Business Development Manager (BDM) of the Year Award has once again proven extremely popular with the financial services community, drawing a la...
It is not every financial planner who can count a meeting with the Prime Minister as a career highlight....
The Australian Consumers’ Association (ACA) has hit out at the funds management and financial planning industry in Australia, stating it is “characterised by structural c...
Wilson HTM has merged its two planning divisions bringing together the groups 90 financial planners and brokers under one structure....
New Zealand based financial services group Tower has announced a $NZ35.8 million writedown of its Australian financial planning business, Bridges Financial Services, to r...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) have formed a joint task force to fight against state Government pro...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...