High profile IFMA executive Sue Laing has resigned after more than a decade developing the life insurance broking and financial planning group....

APIR Systems has received a significant boost to extend its identification system to with a hefty capital injection from the ACT and Federal governments....

After a delay of over a year, discount retail giant The Warehouse, is about to announce the launch of its branded financial services products....

Financial planning groups are lining up to launch their own risk insurance master trusts. ...

The best way to find new planners is to look for young people who are well qualified and part the way through a CFP designation. ...

As the demand for service grows the use of new technology has changed the task of the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC). Jillian Segal looks at ASIC...

Ken Breakspear took up the top job at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) less than a month ago. But as most politicians know, the honeymoon period does not last lon...

Ken Breakspear took up the top job at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) less than a month ago. But as most politicians know, the honeymoon period does not last lon...

Zurich Financial Services Australia chief executive Malcolm Jones has been given the nod by Zurich worldwide to take on the top regional job for the group....

Advisers are concentrating on the high end of the market which will be producing the future millionaires, says Brian Ashe, immediate past-president of the Million Dollar ...

Westpac Financial Services has completed the rollout of electronic education tools for its 550 financial planers....

New Zealand’s funds management industry says overseas-based fund managers may snare most of the business for the Government’s proposed superannuation fund....

In the US, financial planners are no strangers to corporate pension funds and many have shaped their entire businesses around the lucrative US 401k pension plan market. D...

For most Australian workers, superannuation represents one of their two largest assets. With fund balances continuing to grow and the superannuation guarantee rate increa...