Professional Investment Services (PIS) and Frank Russell have struck a deal to develop a new funds management group, Ventura Investment Management Limited....
Professional Investment Services (PIS) will launch its own master trust but denies it will cannibalise funds from other products on the dealer group’s approved list....
Professional Investment Services (PIS) has made the first concrete move of its expansion plans in Singapore with the acquisition of the 195 member strong agency sales for...
Professional Investment Services (PIS) accounting arm Professional Accounting Limited (PAL) has cancelled a planned acquisition and expansion after failing to secure adeq...
Life advisers are still a major force in planning and despite the impact of industry change their numbers have not declined. Simon Segal examines who held fast in the pas...
Boutiques dealer groups have staked their claim by grabbing high net worth clients as well as some of the best advisers. John Wilkinson breaks down the data and finds man...
While this year’s Top 100 dealer survey does not feature any large acquisitions there was plenty of action still occurring among those who scored a place in the rankings....
Professional Investment Services (PIS) has signed 200 financial planners and life brokers in the past 12 months from more than 15 dealer groups Australia, with expansion ...
A number of well known financial planning figures from the local industry are stranded in the US after the Financial Planning Association in America cancelled its annual ...
Late last year, Mercantile Mutual announced the engagement of its two accounting based financial planning groups. Stuart Engel discovers a very different regime at the ne...
Professional Investment Services plans to list on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) before the end of the next financial year....
Professional Investment Services (PIS) has signed up with Australian Finance Group (AFG) to provide mortgage broking throughout its network of financial planners....
Yet another consolidator has emerged and will list on the Australian Stock Exchange in the next few weeks....
Former AMP corporate superannuation boss Grahame Evans has been recruited to head up Professional Investment Services’ recently formed consolidator group Professional Acc...
The Financial Services Reform Bill reforms will have a significant impact on the operations of life insurance agents. Nicole Szollos looks at some of the changes already ...
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...