Back-office software provider Advent has pulled out of the Australian market and closed its Melbourne office....
The Securitor/PACT financial planning dealer groups will implement a price and functionality review of the Asgard master trust in an attempt to increase its market compet...
A number of senior AM Corporation staff, including managing director Trevor Howell and group general manager Graham Davison, have left the group after its purchase by IOO...
More than 90 per cent of the Stockford group has now been sold-off with only one large Sydney practice remaining in the hands of administrator KordaMentha, says Melborne-...
The complexity of financial planning has become a burden, however, as Prue Moodie writes, one suggestion may provide the answer, though it may not be warmly received....
Average returns are only for average people and as Jacinda Green argues, there are better ways for planners to examine the risk/return relationship in a client’s portfoli...
The process involved in obtaining an Australian Financial Services (AFS) licence may be arduous and time-consuming but at least it’s relatively straight-forward. What is ...
Industry research house Lonsdale Securities (Lonsec) has signed an agreement with corporate credit ratings agency Rapid Ratings to provide it with credit ratings on the i...
IWL has added Boss life research to its Visiplan financial planning software as part of the full integration of Llink, the planning software of Accompli Technologies whic...
St George Margin Lending (SGML) can now approve applications for its margin lending products online in less than two minutes via its marketing and administrative software...
If you’re serious about marketing via newsletters there’s only one way to go argues Debbie Mayo-Smith – and that’s online....
Financial planning technology and research group IWL has broken off its agreement with the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) to jointly develop a straight through processin...
The Money Management/Dexx&r Adviser Choice Risk Awards are the result of representatives from both groups meeting with a panel of advisers and experts active in the risk ...
Navigator Australia has moved into the provision of back office services with the rollout of what it is calling a back office master trust....
Financial planning practices have reached a stage that I would describe as mature. However, financial planning businesses are struggling to deal with an old business mode...
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...