Investors set to own platform via equity stakes deal....
An Investment Trends survey conducted two months before FOFA came into effect revealed only 23 per cent of financial planners felt ready....
Thanks to the best interests duty financial advisers now have a better chance then ever to identify quality licensees, writes Anne Fuchs. ...
There were some raised eyebrows when Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden announced his organisation would be developing policy with the Industry Super...
Macquarie Wrap has reached $4 billion in funds under administration (FUA) for its Consolidator Series of investment, superannuation and pension accounts....
There are many aspects involved in running a successful financial planning practice, including the things clients can see and the things that lie beneath the surface. Mil...
ISN chief David Whiteley has urged the next elected government to give FOFA a chance before abandoning it completely. ...
The Commonwealth Bank has finished the last financial year with $7.6 billion in net profit after tax, and an earnings boost for its wealth management division. ...
The Coalition’s Paul Fletcher reaffirms a change in Government will see a change to key elements of FOFA....
In a two-horse race at the forthcoming Federal Election, Mike Taylor writes that financial services companies are mainly backing self-interest. ...
Fairfax Media has decided to exit its financial services play, selling InvestSMART to Australasian Wealth Investments....
Grandfathering will remain under a Coalition Government unless the client decides otherwise....
The Association of Financial Advisers was right to open talks with Treasury officials around the status of grandfathering when planners move between one licensee and anot...
Matrix promotes two staffers and outsources paraplanning...
Planner sentiment has taken a dive over the last three months and there is more than one reason for it, according to Wealth Insights....
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,...