The former managing director of Chifley Financial Services’ financial planning division, Peter Dawson, has resurfaced in the financial services industry for the first tim...

The proliferation of financial planning professionals puts potential clients in a quandary over how to choose an adviser. TOM COLLINS writes we may be at the point where ...

Australian Unity is to set up its own financial planning arm, with Garrisons providing the back-office support....

Financial services company the Snowball Group has signed a strategic partnership with the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI), making Snowball the sole provider o...

InvestmentLink has expanded its services with the roll out of its transaction processing service for retail managed funds, only one day after the Australian Stock Exchang...

As part of its national push, Tasmanian stockbroking and financial planning company, Shadforths Limited has purchased RC & A Financial Services Pty Ltd in Melbourne....

The crisis in professional indemnity insurance which has engulfed many professions in recent weeks has hit home for financial planners, with at least two more groups refu...

Last year the industry was abuzz with discussion centred around a paper called Hypercompetition. Now, as JASON SPITS writes, a follow-up report has been released and the ...

The Snowball Group has been requoted on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) after raising $2 million to fund the implementation of the group’s strategy, which includes in...

<caps>Investor Financial</caps> Planning, a division of Investor Group, has raised the seniority of its corporate team with the appointment of Anthony Garvey to the role ...

Practice management can mean the difference between having an efficient or sloppy planning business. KATE KACHOR reports on what the industry considers the best and worst...

Colonial First State is to make a major push to sell its products through the Commonwealth Bank branches, says group executive investment Peter Polson....

Australian groups, armed with the lessons they’ve learned over the last decade, are now taking on the world’s financial planning markets. GEORGE LIONDIS reports....

The movement by real estate group Raine and Horne into financial planning is the most recent case of a non-traditional financial planning business seeking to establish an...