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...
What do the Mile High Club, the Grinch and financial planning have in common? Trust Nick Bruining to know the answer....
Telstra-owned software company the KAZ Group has teamed up with investor education provider Money Solutions to launch a joint venture in the form of a subscription-based ...
Westpac Bank has become the second big fish in as many months to sign-up emerging technology firm Coin Software at the expense of more established players, after the bank...
The giant $12 billion UniSuper fund has flexed its industry muscles, appointing six dealer groups to exclusively service its more than 380,000 members, but insisting advi...
IWL has delivered a strong first quarter result after posting a 15 per cent hike in operating revenue buoyed by favourable economic conditions and an expedient implementa...
The second annual Rate the Risk Raters survey reinforces the growing role of risk researchers, but not everyone is happy. LIAM EGAN reports....
Capstone Financial Planning has continued its push to establish a national financial planning presence with the opening of a Brisbane office....
Fiducian Portfolio Services has embarked on an aggressive financial planner and dealer group acquisition policy, after posting a return to profitability in 2003/04....
Damian Franco knows a fair bit about risk rating research. When he was state manager at Guardian Financial Planning a few years ago, he was given the onerous duty of sort...
More and more financial planners are getting into risk insurance, but it is not as straightforward as it may seem. For the first time, the FPA will tackle some of the iss...
Risk advisers can benefit from using research. But as Ross Kelly discovers, that’s not where the story ends....
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has ended almost a year of speculation about the structure of its new financial planning venture by unveiling a suite of initiati...
Financial services software group FinaMetrica has launched what it claims is Australia’s first web-based risk tolerance assessment tool for consumers....
The rush to offer term allocated pensions to the market has led US-based Computer Sciences Corporation and wealth management systems provider Syscorp to develop software ...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...