SOFTWARE

Financial planning

Mike Dunne has joined Ipac as technology and business services general manager in a bid to enhance its e-commerce capabilities to advisers....

Financial planning

Investment management software supplier DST International (DSTi) has picked up Melbourne based unit registry developer MaxTrak Technology for a sum described as “multi-mi...

Financial planning

Mercantile Mutual has rebranded its life insurance broking arm into a dealer group, AustAdvis-ers, in a bid to attract planners seeking a solution to licensing changes sl...

Financial planning

Global Technology Fund Take Off Whether or not you believe that the economy has undergone a paradigm shift, there is no denying that ‘new economy’ stocks have left the...

Financial planning

Mercantile Mutual has signed a deal with ProQuest to use ProQuest’s personal financial risk profiling system on the MercAdviser Web site....

Financial planning

Platinum Asset Management was born on 1 March 1994, the boutique brainchild of Kerr Neilson and a team of six other former BT Funds Management international equities expe...

Life/Risk

Income protection has had its fair share of trouble in the past five years as life insurance groups have scrambled to fix loss-making books of business. One major trend r...

Financial planning

Australian stocks have been battered this morning as the local bourse follows the journey south of the US stock markets....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) recently issued a warning, telling investors and advisers to be aware of the pitfalls of share trading systems...

Financial planning

Zurich is to secure the 20 per cent of Lonsdale it does not already before offering shareholdings to Lonsdale’s 100 advisers....

Financial planning

Some of you must wonder sometimes whether I enjoy being in the financial serv-ices industry. Well I do. Few other industries could be more dynamic, more suited to electro...

Financial planning

US fund managers are now offering three types of wrap account as the next gen-eration of products....

Financial planning

Software developed by Australian-based funds management group BBL Funds Manage-ment is making inroads into the Asian markets with deals signed in Singapore and India....

Financial planning

Two years ago, Advisor Investment Services was going through one of the most turbulent periods in its 18 year history. Today, the group has steadied and is back in the bl...

Financial planning

There is no computer software that can make you ‘get rich quick’, so don’t be fooled by sales hype and inflated claims, says Director of the Australian Securities and Inv...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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