In a recent issue of Money Management, Grant Abbott looked at the issue of proactivity. In this issue, he outlines how to turn your financial planning practice into a fin...

The past five years will certainly remembered by financial services historians as the time our big institutions threw off the shackles of their mutual structures and demu...

The Australian financial planning industry has a history of following some of the major trends emanating from the United States. In the hope of gaining an insight on wher...

Online financial transactions have become almost commonplace among the richest third of Australian society. Mike Taylor asks whether the Australian populace is ready for ...

RetireInvest and Godfrey Pembroke have beaten off six competitors to supply financial planning and advice to members of Towers Perrin SuperSolutions superannuation packag...

Former Armidale-based insurance broker, John Murray Murnane has pleaded guilty to charges of theft, being an unregistered insurance broker and operating a business while ...

AXA is on the prowl for dealer groups to boost its distribution network, group chief executive Les Owen has confirmed....

Global sector funds may be the flavour of the month for funds management marketeers, but there is a limit to the number of sectors that can be realistically used....

NSP Buck is launching an online superannuation administration service for fund members....

LIFE insurance companies will not require policy holders to undergo genetic testing under a recent Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) ruling....

AM Corporation is one of the last surviving independently owned financial services groups in Australia. STUART ENGEL examines the impact of one of the biggest revamps in ...

AM Corporation has pulled the plug on its own life insurance company as a part of one of the biggest revamps in the group’s 25 year history....

LIFE insurers will take a hit to the bottom line if the delayed Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) is resurrected....

A year as chairman of the FPA is a year full of activity. Indeed it is year full of activity, much of which is propelled by change. And it is change that has moved from t...