FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP

Financial planning

Niche marketing is not about scaling down your business – it’s the total opposite. Five financial planners tell KATE KACHOR and FIONA MOORE how niche markets have helped ...

Financial planning

Listed financial services group, Terrain Securities Pty Ltd (TSPL), has signed a heads of agreement deal to merge with Mortimer and Chua (M&C), an Australian based stockb...

Financial planning

Money Management, Super Review and Fianncial Planning magazine associate publisher Susie Newham will take on the role as publisher, within the financial services group of...

Financial planning

One of the largest independently owned dealer groups in Australia, Count Financial, has flagged a 25 per cent drop in its operating profit for the first half of this fina...

Financial planning

Macquarie financial services has undergone a major re-structure with the division reverting back to a state-by-state approach from a national model, resulting in the depa...

Accounting

Permanent managing director Paul Lahiff has linked the acquisition of small accounting firm W&D Partners to its increased exposure to private clients, while hinting that ...

Financial planning

Challenger International has confirmed media speculation this morning that it had indeed been in talks with Merrill Lynch about acquiring its private client division....

Financial planning

The chance of a recovery for embattled financial services group Harts Australasia seems almost impossible, as parts of the group were offered up for sale by its provision...

Editorial

The September quarter result for financial services group HP JDV has been dragged down by its wealth management division, with the group recording a before tax loss of $4...

Financial planning

WealthPoint and Sealcorp chief executives Brett Sanders and Ian Knox respectively, have resigned as directors of WealthPoint Limited in a shake-up of the company’s board ...

Editorial

With a view of the sun setting over the Whitsunday’s from his position at the bar, Garry Weaven is looking way too relaxed for someone who has been busy putting the finis...

Financial planning

Financial services group Harts Australasia may have left the financial services industry reeling in the past week with news of its collapse, however, it appears that the ...

Financial planning

Professional Investment Services (PIS) has signed 200 financial planners and life brokers in the past 12 months from more than 15 dealer groups Australia, with expansion ...

Financial planning

The founder and executive chairman of financial services group Harts Australasia, Steve Hart, faced the Brisbane Magistrates Court charged with 11 tax-related fraud offen...

Financial planning

Harts Australasia has lost its court battle against the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), with the listed financial services group being forced int...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

4 months 1 week ago

A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

3 weeks 2 days ago

Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

2 weeks 1 day ago

One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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