The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) will appoint a statutory approved trustees (SAT) to thousands of DIY super funds as new regulations come into force....
Zurich Financial Services has added an interactive e-mail component to its web site but has stated it will not use the service to provide advice or sell products....
Industry research tells us that more and more people are turning to financial planners – but what do clients really think of their advisers? David Chaplin investigates....
Financial Planners have rightly focused on professionalism, but too many have not paid enough attention to the operations side of their businesses. Anyone in finance not ...
What makes Australia’s top planners so successful? The answer, as Gerard Doherty discovered, lies partly in successful client management....
Lifespan Financial Planning has signed an agreement to use Sanford’s Virtual Broker internet service which provides a branded stockbroking service to clients....
Australia's first listed accountancy and financial services group Harts Australasia has purchased leading trustee and portfolio management group Cardinal Financial Securi...
Zurich Financial Services has added an interactive e-mail component to its web site but has stated it will not use the service to provide advice or sell products. Superan...
An administrator has been appointed to the Victorian Soho Lemon Management scheme. Director Peter Russell-Clarke says he requested an administrator be appointed to protec...
Continuing Tax Office crack-downs on self employed and sub contractors will have a marked impact on self employed service providers such as financial planners this financ...
Only one in 50 financial planners does not use the Internet for their business, according to a recent survey....
Financial planners will need to change the way they offer advice on tax issues as they relate to investments....
The Strategist Group recently sat down and documented more than 100 different strategies that financial planners may implement when dealing with clients that have put in ...
Lawyers and accountants will not be subject to the same licensing requirements as financial planners if the findings of the Joint Statutory Committee on Corporations and ...
Challenger International has closed its new retail biotech fund oversubscribed with the fund exceeding the company’s target of $40 million....
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,...