The Tower group has announced it will make a strategic exit from the life insurance market in China in order to concentrate on its Australian wealth management operations...
The former managing director of Morningstar, Graham Rich, has signed joint venture agreements with Plan-for-Life and Resnik Communications, as part of the role out of his...
Australian Skandia is preparing to launch its own personal superannuation and allocated pension products after confirming today that it had managed to obtain Approved Tru...
Colonial First State has completed almost nine months of preparations for its much anticipated new master trust, gearing up to launch the investment platform to its finan...
It’s never too late when it comes to succession management. As FIONA MOORE reports, planners are advised to put a strategy in place at least 10-15 years before they plan ...
Perpetual Investments has launched a socially responsible investment (SRI) fund, following two years of research to determine investor and financial adviser interest in e...
Australian based companies are preparing to capture a bigger slice of the burgeoning market for financial services in Asia with at least three major organisations making ...
The UK subsidiary of Australian financial services group Challenger International has been granted a licence by the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) to bring its i...
ING has broadened the distribution of its Optimix funds in what is sure to be seen as a challenge to the relationship between ING’s soon-to-be funds management partner, t...
Fidelity Investments has conducted a survey on the attitudes of UK advisors following the release of a set of proposals by the UK industry regulator Financial Services Au...
Macquarie Financial Services has restructured its core adviser distribution team in an attempt to boost its level of service to independent financial advisers....
The Westpac Banking Corporation is believed to be preparing to launch a new financial planning dealer group that will be staffed exclusively by independent financial advi...
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...
MLC will use intermediaries to distribute MLC Corporate Solutions rather than going direct to market as it has done in the past....
Independent financial advisers are remaining disillusioned with the big banks in the personal and business superannuation market, a new survey of independent advisers has...
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,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...