Super changes prompt BT to lower fees for wrap customers who link accounts....
Once deemed too expensive and complex, structured products are shedding their mystique as they become more appealing to investors in times of peaking markets. In many cir...
Nearly half of first time retail hedge fund investors involve a financial planner in the transaction, according to a new Macquarie/Investment Trends Alternative Investmen...
Projections of a flood of people selling out of direct property to make a $1 million one-off tax-advantaged cash contribution to super by June 30, this year, do not appea...
In the past three years MLC’s platform MasterKey Custom has doubled its funds under administration, hitting the $10 billion mark....
Griffin Financial Services director, Ray Griffin, says he has eschewed annuities since the 90s when rates became less favourable. He prefers to go direct to market to cre...
Many accountants are unaware of what constitutes unlicensed advice, meaning they are often treading a fine line between what they can and can’t discuss, according to thei...
Two Victorian men who convinced their clients to roll their superannuation benefits into a self-managed super fund before pumping the money into their own petrol station ...
Financial advisers have embraced the growth in self-managed superannuation funds with recent research showing just under half of them, 46 per cent, see it as a significan...
Australian Unity Investments has formed a joint venture with boutique manager Platypus Asset Management to offer Australian retail equity products....
Tribeca Learning will exit its compliance business and scale back its events business, as it braces for a disappointing finish to 2004-05....
The planning practice of former Financial Planning Association board member Laura Menschik has joined forces with two other boutiques to set up a new business combining f...
Almost 500,000 or 8 per cent of those Australians eligible to determine their own super fund under impending choice of fund legislation will opt to do so according to new...
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...