WESTPAC

Life/Risk

The pattern of year-on-year growth for risk sales has been repeated in 2012, according to DEXX&R....

image
Financial planning

National Australia Bank (NAB) has ranked first as the safest bank in Australasia and number 16 in the world, the latest report from Global Finance states....

image
Financial planning

Westpac Group has directed a significant budget towards what it is describing as its "2017 sustainability strategy"....

image
People & Products

Online portfolio management solutions provider SelfWealth has appointed Gary Warner as national sales manager....

image
Financial planning

Westpac Institutional Bank has launched what it describes as a first-of-a-kind deposit product....

image
Financial planning

Westpac’s BT has launched a new brand campaign aimed at creating greater awareness of the company and what it does....

image
People & Products

Margaret Payn has been appointed AMP Capital's chief financial officer, following the departure of finance director Jim Dawson....

image
Editorial

Janine Mace looks at a better-than-expected performance of emerging markets, though challenges still remain....

image
Financial planning

Satisfaction among business banking customers has slipped again over the month of December, falling further below that of personal customers, the latest Roy Morgan Resear...

image
Life/Risk

Risk premium inflows and sales have once again achieved double-digit growth, with TAL and CommInsure emerging as success stories of 2012, according to Plan for Life figur...

image
Financial planning

Challenger's suite of annuities, which collectively represents around 80 per cent of the annuity market share in Australia, has been given a 'recommended' rating by the r...

image
People & Products

Former Westpac commercial banking executive Mark Paton has joined fixed-income specialist FIIG Securities as chief executive....

image
Life/Risk

The importance of life/risk sales to financial advisers' revenue streams has been underscored by the latest data released by research house DEXX&R....

image
People & Products

In line with strategic changes to its operations, Professional Investment Services (PIS) has made three senior management appointments....

image
Financial planning

The Australian mortgage market has recorded historically low growth in the last year, having increased only by 4.2 per cent, according to CoreData....

image
sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

GG

So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...

4 weeks ago
Denise Baker

This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...

4 weeks 1 day ago
gonski

So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...

4 weeks 1 day ago

The decision whether to proceed with a $100 million settlement for members of the buyer of last resort class action against AMP has been decided in the Federal Court....

2 weeks ago

A former Brisbane financial adviser has been found guilty of 28 counts of fraud where his clients lost $5.9 million....

4 weeks ago

The Financial Advice Association Australia has addressed “pretty disturbing” instances where its financial adviser members have allegedly experienced “bullying” by produc...

3 weeks 1 day ago