PLATFORMS

Financial planning

Why would one of Australia's most successful financial planning distribution businesses spend millions on setting up a direct distribution business? Stuart Engel speaks w...

Superannuation

While master trusts are a big part of the local scene they have yet to make a real impact in the UK market. JASON SPITS looks at why the market is set to change in the ne...

Financial planning

As a financial services professional have you ever held a meeting to discuss why clients are no longer excited by the value proposition of your products?...

Financial planning

A number of Australia’s leading financial services consultants have been traversing the nation for the past month as a part of the FPA Roadshow. Money Management caught u...

Financial planning

Perpetual Trustees will aim to keep a lid on costs in preparation for a possible downturn in the stock market....

Financial planning

Too many business relationships between financial planners and the accountants who refer clients fail due to poor structure of the relationship, says Shirlaws partner Chr...

Financial planning

Swedish investment and insurance giant, Skandia, has announced an intention to enter the Australian retail savings market and will shortly establish its headquarters in S...

Financial planning

What makes Australia’s top planners so successful? The answer, as Gerard Doherty discovered, lies partly in successful client management....

Financial planning

Swedish investment and insurance giant, Skandia, has announced an intention to enter the Australian retail savings market and will shortly establish its headquarters in S...

Financial planning

One of the most well known faces in the life insurance industry, Alan Betts, has teamed up with South African life insurer Capital Alliance to launch Australia’s first ne...

Funds management

Hedge Funds of Australia’s (HFA) aggressive push into the retail market is paying dividends with the listing of its ABC fund two further major distribution platforms. ...

Financial planning

Hedge Funds of Australia’s (HFA) aggressive push into the retail market is paying dividends with the listing of its ABC fund two further major distribution platforms....

Financial planning

AM Corporation will launch its ‘second generation wrap’ before the end of the year, says national manager information systems Paul Medcraft....

Financial planning

A group going by the name of Surfboard has become the latest online financial services group to list on the Australian stock exchange. Surfboard hit the ASX boards thanks...

Financial planning

Australia's master trusts and wrap accounts are about to undergo a massive shake-up which will leave only five left standing....

sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

4 days 12 hours ago

Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

1 week 1 day ago

It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

3 weeks 6 days ago

Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

3 weeks 1 day ago

A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

1 week ago

Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

6 days 18 hours ago