The Westpac Banking Corporation is believed to be preparing to launch a new financial planning dealer group that will be staffed exclusively by independent financial advi...
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....
Fund managers in New Zealand are busily sniffing around financial planning firms looking to buy distribution for their products with AXA leading the moves, openly walking...
Consolidators have been big news in the last year but their success has been mixed. Simon Segal examines where they fell in this year’s rankings....
AMP Financial Planning has taken out the top placing in the annual Money Management Top 100 Dealer’s Survey for the third year in a row with 1548 planners recorded on its...
<caps>Major</caps> Singaporean corporates may be eyeing Australia’s telecommunications, airlines and financial services industries, but a band of smaller Australian finan...
The consolidation trend within financial services looks set to continue as activity within the partly Zurich owned Lonsdale and Bridgeport groups pick up pace....
Whispers within the financial services industry seem to suggest that financial planners have something to fear as the financial year ends. However, Kate Kachor discovers ...
A number of Australia’s premier financial planning groups have added the latest additions of the Hedge Funds of Australia (HFA) product range to their recommended lists....
A number of Australia’s premier financial planning groups have added the latest additions of the Hedge Funds of Australia (HFA) product range to their recommended lists....
Cold calling is finding a new lease of life as offshore groups seek investors to part with their cash. Yet many of these are either not licensed to operate or even on the...
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....
The penny has finally dropped. Financial planning groups have embraced large scale superannuation and are fighting fiercely for a piece of the rapidly growing market....
Some of Australia’s top financial planning groups have claimed part of a Victorian Government tender, generating one of Australia’s biggest financial planning programs....
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...