Macquarie Wrap Solutions’ new low cost ‘Baby Wrap’ went live today, offering investors with as little as $2,000 entry to an administration platform that claims lower fees...
The funds management industry was given a respite from lacklustre markets in the second quarter of 2003, stimulating an improvement in the net inflow position compared to...
BT Financial Group has expanded the investment menu for its recently launched low-cost platform, Wrap Essentials, adding 12 new funds across value, growth and core styles...
Platform provider Asgard Capital Management has struck an alliance with E*Trade Australia to allow it to integrate an online share trading service within its wrap product...
Three consecutive months of positive returns for the Australian and international share sectors have given growth orientated funds some hope for a positive 2002/03 financ...
The fastest growing dealers are at the big end of town, but so are those with falling numbers. As Ben Abbott discovered, scale does not guarantee success....
Europe’s smaller banks are scooping up an increasing proportion of the US$94 billion European managed fund sub-advisory market, which consists of funds managed by a singl...
Listed financial planning group Snowball has announced a capital raising it says will enable the company to move more quickly towards becoming a profitable entity....
MLC and electronic platform provider InvestmentLink have signed a deal that will enable the MLC group to widen its platform’s reporting capabilities to include products f...
Superannuation insurance premiums accounted for the lion’s share of total life office revenue received during the March quarter 2003, according to the Australian Prudenti...


ASIC has canceled the AFSL of Sydney-based asset consultant and research firm....
ASIC has banned a Melbourne-based financial adviser for eight years over false and misleading statements regarding clients’ superannuation investments....
ASIC has banned a Melbourne-based financial adviser who gave inappropriate advice to his clients including false and misleading Statements of Advice....
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...