The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has appointed Jillian Segal, former commissioner and deputy chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), as a...

The distributional strength of independent financial advisers (IFAs) in the UK is under threat by depolorisation legislation, which will see banks and large financial ins...

Perpetual Investments has flagged the launch of a new multi-manager retail platform, to compete with the likes of Colonial First State’s FirstChoice product, for the last...

Funds of funds received one out of every seven dollars injected into the world’s managed fund industry during 2002, an all-time high that indicates growing interest in th...

Mercer Investment Consulting has launched a retail investment research platform targeted specifically at the financial planning market, in direct competition with other p...

As the call for professional standards echoes around Asia, various industry bodies are lining up for a piece of the action. Ben Abbott reports....

Count Financial has weighed in on heated industry debate over whether accountants should be able to provide advice on superannuation fund structures without an Australian...

AXA has made a bid to release itself from a catch-22 situation in which it has contractually agreed to allow advisers to hold client information if they leave the groups ...

The wealth management divisions of Australian banks can look forward to a further half a year of lacklustre performance according to the latest KPMG Major Bank Survey....

Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) has made a move into the depressed Asian equities market, launching an Asia ex Japan fund for Australian investors at what it claims...