Standard and Poor’s has pledged to keep the majority of Assirt staff, as well as maintain the Assirt brand, after it ended month’s of speculation by agreeing to buy the r...
Technology provider Boss Software has incorporated six new next-generation strategic modelling tools into its Dimensions financial planning system as the first stage of a...
The Packer media empire will play a large part in Challenger’s bid to make a household name of its rebranded dealer group, Genesis Wealth Advisers....
Wealth management group IWL has notched up what it says is a record half-year result for 2005, posting earnings growth of 43 per cent on the corresponding 2004 half-year....
FuturePlus Financial Services has struck a deal with software provider Milestone to implement its integrated fund processing and analytic software platform....
BT Financial Group has developed a new software program that channels superannuation contributions to various funds in an attempt to lighten the administrative load that ...
Fledging financial services software company Bravura Solutions added Syscorp to its takeover menu today as well as finalising the acquisition of another major software pr...
Count Financial has bought the planning software already used by most of its advisers, Interact, from IOOF Investment Management after the latter opted to sell the packag...
In 2002 the humble brussel sprout was elevated to celebrity status in Australia’s retirement industry through NRMA and its offshoot, ClearView Retirement Solutions....
Australian Unity Financial Planning has replaced Garrisons as its back office administrator following a deal being struck with IOOF Funds Management-owned OutScope....
Financial planning through banks has been regarded as unsophisticated, product-focused and entry level. But, as Jason Spits discovered, the banks are working hard to over...
Recent ‘Point of View’ comments on the future of ‘networks’ by Ray Miles and Paul Brown (MM September 9, August 26) raise some interesting challenges and concerns for ins...
Even the most technology savvy financial planners are inclined to switch off when the discussion turns to ‘straight through processing’. But that could soon change, write...
Retail investors are diving into option trading, writes Dominic McCormick. But will they be out of their depth when markets take a plunge?...
IOOF has made an aggressive bid for a share of the administration market, renaming its in-house back office subsidiary Australian Financial Planning Network as OutScope a...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
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,...