Financial planning industries around the world are facing unique challenges. KATE KACHOR reports on how the Japanese, US and UK financial planning industries are respondi...

Recently on a flight, I found myself sitting next to a couple also on their way back home to Airlie Beach, near Mackay. Striking up a conversation, I found they had moved...

Regulation of financial planning industries around the world is getting tougher, a reaction to both past mistakes and the opportunity to lift standards in the future. FIO...

Cultural issues play an important role in the relationship between client and adviser. NICOLE SZOLLOS reports on some of the challenges faced by advisers working in Asia....

Assirt chief executive Krystyna Weston has announced her departure from the research house to take up the role of head of retail distribution with AMP Henderson Global In...

Making compulsory superannuation work more effectively can provide substantial taxation relief to clients of financial planners, AMP technical services manager John Perri...

Following the restructuring of its business six months earlier, Deakin Financial Services Group is now spreading its wings and going national as a company focussed on a s...

One of Australia’s largest master trusts, Asgard, has dumped 16 funds offered by nine different fund managers from its investment menu as part of its latest revamp of the...

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has threatened to take its case directly to the Government if it fails to broker a solution with the insurance industry over the ...

Listed financial services group Fiducian Portfolio Services has finalised an agreement with Challenger to launch complying annuities products to its network of financial ...

Deutsche Asset Management (DAM) has been contracted by Zurich to implement the investment mandates formerly carried out by Scudder, effectively making Zurich a client of ...

Tower Life Australia has launched a new disability income product aimed at providing a more individual insurance solution for clients....

The head of the NRMA’s asset management division, Susan Doyle, has today announced her departure from the group....

Life insurance group Lumley has launched a new critical illness product in an effort to tackle the issue of the rising costs of trauma insurance....