A raft of high profile financial planners and industry figures have launched a scathing attack on the funds management industry for a list of deficiencies they say are a ...
Financial forecasting is so often wrong, says Robert Keavney, that it is about as useful as reading tea leaves....
The funds management industry has come under further attack with more leading industry commentators slamming fund products they claim are being designed for a small profi...
Aurora Funds Management has struck a distribution deal with van Eyk Research and White Funds Management (WFM) less than three weeks after launching Aurora Distribution – ...
The funds management industry has been lambasted for its “uninspiring” lack of product innovation - a situation if not righted that will push more and more clients into d...
New research from Melbourne-based Property Investment Research has shown a sustained structural shift towards unlisted property fund managers, which will lead to a furthe...
Inflows into master trusts and wraps have grown at a rapid rate but what happens to the funds once they are in the door. Jason Spits looks at where they go, who makes the...
It was five years ago that the Top 100 Dealer Groups research first hit the financial services industry, tracking the changes of a growth industry. Jason Spits looks at t...
As Nick Bruining’s career on the Financial Planning Association (FPA) board draws to a close, he reveals its deepest, darkest secrets…...
With more and more platforms flooding the market, it seems our Top 100 Dealer Groups just can’t make up their minds about which one they prefer....
For the first time in five years, fund manager and bank owned dealer groups have dropped the number of planners and dealer groups they hold, according to this year’s Mon...
Paul Resnik believes it is all too easy for planners to focus on investment choice rather than investment outcomes....
Conventional portfolios have largely failed retail investors and financial planners need to reconsider incorporating a fuller range of appropriate investments, according ...
Hub provider InvestmentLink will now offer consolidated data for 13 platforms and fund managers via its e-Portfolio Transaction Service after the addition of the recently...
If the National Australia Bank is ultimately successful in nabbing AMP, it will unbalance the pillars of power says, Graham Rich....
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...