Head of distribution at Zurich Financial Services Australia, Steve Newnham, will officially step down from the role today, making way for assistant head of sales Janet Sm...
The Victorian based Australian Financial Services (AFS) dealer group is making a considered push to set up a master trust exclusively for risk insurance products....
Perpetual’s new investment platform has hit the ground running by starting with three dealer groups already signed to use the system....
Software provider Investment Data Technologies (IDT) has moved to integrate its adviser systems with popular wrap and master trust platforms to give planners seamless acc...
AXA’s Summit master trust has been slammed by disgruntled advisers of financial planning group Monitor Money, with many regretting the decision to roll the Assure wrap se...
Master trust provider Strategic Investments will change its name to Finium Financial Services as part of a relaunch designed to distance itself from other groups and emph...
Master trust provider Netwealth has added a life insurance product to the range it has available through its Superannuation Master Fund, joining what seems to be a growin...
As disillusioned planners continue their exodus from bank owned groups, Bridges Financial Services is one group positioning itself to catch the fallout. Lucie Beaman repo...
AMP Australian Financial Services has selected Asgard as the service provider for its e-wrap platform following an extensive due diligence process of potential providers....
The corporate superannuation market might be shrinking but opportunities for advisers still abound. Craig Phillips reports....
Zurich Financial Services has created the new Sydney-based role of assistant head of group sales, which the group hopes will help co-ordinate its key accounts, master tru...
Superannuation administrator and master trust provider SMF Funds Management will gain 600 new members and $8 million in funds when it takes over OFM Investment Group’s re...
Bridges Financial Services has altered the annual fee structure of its master trust, The Portfolio Service, by introducing a new tiered portfolio fee rebate and reducing ...
Equity Trustees will consider the roll out of a self-managed superannuation funds administration package in a bid to boost its superannuation business....
Badging’s success is unrivalled in getting planners to make use of them. Jason Spits looks at where the numbers fall....
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
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,...