The mission by the financial services giants to dominate the financial planning industry is now complete....

IRD casts eyes over life companies The Inland Revenue Department (IRD) is auditing several life companies as its review of the life insurance taxation regime steps up a g...

AMP’s tempestuous union GIO is paying its first dividends with the combined group dominating the race for win new life insurance business....

The Inland Revenue Department (IRD) is auditing several life companies as its review of the life insurance taxation regime steps up a gear....

Zurich Financial Services is to concentrate on organic growth to further develop its Australian business....

The superannuation choice of fund proposal has been on the Federal Government’s to do list since the Coalition came to power in 1996. And while the Government considers i...

IOOF's 30 per cent rise in funds under management during the last financial year has come from independent financial advisers, says managing director Rob Turner....

In a recent superannuation surcharge ruling, the commissioner of taxation opened a Pandora’s box when he talked of using reserves in a self managed superannuation fund (S...

When it comes to business tax reform most of the headlines have been about capital gains tax (CGT) reform, accelerated depreciation and the lower corporate tax proposal....

AMP Financial Planning is probably Australia's biggest dealer group with about 1280 plan-ners. Samantha Walker steps inside the juggernaut to see what makes it tick....

The Life Insurance Conduct and Disclosure (LICD) Bill is back on the legislative agenda but under a different guise....

The Financial Industry Complaints Service (FICS) has become the first off the blocks in the race to sign up responsible entities to its scheme....

Financial services organisations are increasingly focussing their efforts on attract-ing the ‘pink dollar’. ...

Insurance bonds can still be a valuable investment tool and should not be ig-nored by financial planners, according to Mike Newton, director of Sovereign Funds Management...