Professional Investment Services has revealed another plank of its strategy for offshore expansion, announcing plans for a new business servicing offshore financial advis...
The FPA has stepped up the pressure on its members over soft dollar payments, asking them to prove they are complying with a new code of conduct....
Professional Investment Services has confirmed it is in negotiations to buy a US-based financial planning group, in a move that could result in Australia’s second largest...
The new celebrity backed dealer group launched by Professional Investment Services has set itself the ambitious target of having $10 billion under advice within five to s...
A 15 planner-strong dealer group specialising in advising school teachers is the next of a recent spate of advisory businesses to badge Aviva’s Navigator platform....
The final hurdle confronting Aviva’s planned purchase of a 20 per cent stake in Professional Investment Services (PIS) has been cleared, with the UK insurance giant confi...
MLC has finalised a deal giving it 100 per cent ownership of a Hong Kong-based wealth management business for a purchase price of $148 million....
The success of a dealer group is often measured by adviser numbers. However, examining the assets of the dealer group – that is, the funds under advice and the productivi...
The 10 largest dealer groups in Australia added 475 advisers during the year to March 31, maintaining their share of advisers in the Top 100 dealer groups at 50 per cent,...
Professional Investment Services will next week finalise a deal to take an equity stake in a Malaysian financial planning practice, and is poised for further expansion ac...
Count Financial will announce at its annual conference today that it is offering a new software system to its aligned accountants and advisers, as well as confirming that...
Genesys Wealth Advisers has succeeded in luring two practises away from rival dealer groups in what the Challenger own planning business claims will be the first of many ...
The departure of Grahame Evans after five years as managing director at Professional Investment Services was “perfectly timed”, according to chief executive Robbie Bennet...
Challenger Financial Services has signalled it is serious about winning over more advisers, confirming that HSBC Asset Management’s head of distribution will join it foll...
It’s official. After three years living together, ING and ANZ have signed the papers and will this year get hitched for real through their joint venture company, ING Aust...
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,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...