Australia’s financial advice industry is underpinned by licensing arrangements enforced and administered by the ever shrinking resources of our investment watchdog. Tom C...

BT Funds Management is to merge the BT Property Trust and BT Office Trust to create Austra-lia's biggest office-specific property trust, with total assets of $1.5 billion...

Newly elected national president of the Securities Institute Michael Willis has lent his voice to the argument calling for real estate agents to be subject to the same re...

Gone are the days of state bickering of over who’s got the best beer, weather and hot commercial property between Sydney and Melbourne. It is now Sydney verse’s the rest ...

The proportion of Australians with direct share holdings dropped for the first time in two years, a survey has found....

Education is shaping up as one of the big financial planning issues over the next couple of years. But the debate has shifted. No longer do people argue over the benefits...

The National Australia Bank confirmed industry rumours by officially announcing it will purchase MLC from Lend Lease for $4.56 billion cash, with a completion date set fo...

Fees for transaction-based services will continue to fall as fund managers go direct and the financial planning industry builds on the service concept, says Skip Parish f...

Your article, "Branding Business" (Money Management, September 16), seems to suggest that branding is an all-to-tough proposition for financial planning organisa-tions. W...

Over the past five years, a lot of the fat has been trimmed from profit margins for banks on home loans. At the same time, profit margins for margin lenders re-main robus...

In another sign that financial planning at the Big Five accounting firms is undergoing a major shakeup, a group of advisers, headed by Deloitte Financial Services directo...

Over the past five years, a lot of the fat has been trimmed from profit margins for banks on home loans. At the same time, profit margins for margin lenders remain robust...

Over the past few years, the Financial Planning Association has called on ASIC to regulate real estate agents who provide property investment advice. Shifting the spotlig...

At the end of April, the Assistant Treasurer released an exposure draft of the Superannuation Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 4) 1999. This is the legislation that implem...