The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has made final stop or-ders on the prospectuses for the The Oil Fields Project 4 and The Great Forests 1999 Pr...
“This issue is a huge sleeper and it makes John Laws look like a bloody Franciscan monk.”...
Proposed changes to the All Ordinaries Index will allow better comparisons of fund managers and their claimed styles, according to industry pundits....
“How deeply entrenched are soft dollar commissions in the financial services industry?”...
Despite a brief hiatus, demand for back office services from financial services organisations looks set to boom. Samantha Walker discovers why....
Macquarie Investment Management is to open up its private equity fund of funds MAIT (Macquarie Alternative Investment Trust) to retail in-vestors for the first time in ea...
Fund managers must have the right people running their outsourcing services if they want to maintain their distribution relationships with financial planners. "Financial...
A cheaper way of reaching rural advisers around Australia has been launched by AM Corporation with its Internet conferencing service. The service, claimed to be a first f...
The Financial Planners and Investment Advisers Association (FPIA) needs to improve its structure if it is to administer a registration scheme for financial advisers, acco...
A significant number of funds management groups missed the June 30 deadline for lodgement of trustee retirement notices under the Managing Investments Act (MIA), accordin...
This is an open letter to all funds managers from a typical adviser who runs a small business. I mean to raise issues that urgently need to be addressed by all sides of o...
In less than a fortnight, the first conference to combines wholesale and retail financial services kicks off in Melbourne. Two of the IFSA conference's keynote speakers s...
Australians are most likely to choose a fund managers based on a recommendation, usually from a financial planner or family member, rather than advertising, a new ASSIRT/...
Australia's managed funds industry is poised to break through the $500 billion for the first time....
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...