Plan B's acquisition of Aspire Finance to increase Plan B's client service business and writing ability....
Funds management and property group MacarthurCook has acknowledged the difficulties it will face in staving off the takeover bid mounted by AIMS Securities....
Balmain Trilogy has lodged a notice with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission under the Corporations Act requiring the regulator to register Trilogy as th...
Despite recent headway made in reducing the underinsurance problem, too many Australians are still too exposed to risk....
When Australia was enjoying a bull property market, investors - many of them retirees - opted to put their money in mortgage funds as a way of guaranteeing a regular inco...
City Pacific is disputing Balmain Trilogy's claim that it received an overwhelming number of votes from unit-holders yesterday to replace it as the responsible entity for...
Mortgage calculators which show that borrowers can pay off their mortgage sooner without increasing their monthly payments have attracted the attention of the regulator....
Balmain Trilogy won approval in the Queensland Federal Court yesterday to hold a meeting to today in an attempt to have City Pacific ousted as the responsible entity of t...
The argument over the management of the First Mortgage Fund will be heard in the Queensland Federal Court today, as the deadline for lodging proxy votes also arrives....
A warning to investors by ASIC yesterday that consumers were sometimes encouraged to borrow more money than they actually need was not necessarily aimed at financial plan...
Rival fund manager Balmain Trilogy aims to replace City Pacific as fund manager, 97 per cent of votes received in favour....
A former Sydney mortgage broker has been jailed for 21 months after pleading guilty to charges of fraud that followed an investigation by the Australian Securities and In...
The Government has been warned against making the new mortgage broking licensing regime as cumbersome as those affecting financial planners....
First regular redemption facility since the introduction of the Government’s bank guarantee....
Former property developer and mortgage broker has pleaded not guilty to charges of obtaining investors' funds through misleading statements and misappropriating funds....
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,...