Professional Investment Services (PIS) has seen its plan to buy 50 per cent of a US dealer group fall through after negotiations faltered during the due diligence process...
BT has enhanced the stable of products and services within its Investment Wrap and SuperWrap products, claiming to have tailored them more closely to the needs of adviser...
A new study has found 89.2 per cent of financial advisers are either dissatisfied or extremely dissatisfied with the level of success they have achieved to date....
Investors Mutual (IML) is moving from “strength to strength” according to the latest rating of the boutique fund manager by Assirt....
InvestorWeb Research has added Invesco to its recommended list of managers after completing its latest report into the fixed interest sector....
Japanese investors are stubbornly ambivalent to the provision of financial advice according to US-based research firm Cerulli Associates, meaning Japanese advisers are co...
Merger and acquisition activity among the larger funds management groups has meant many now face the challenges of consolidating assets within multiple platforms into sin...
A war of words has begun between three industry bodies over disclosure of commissions on risk products and the viability of the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA)....
The Australian funds management market place is being increasingly dominated by the top five fund managers, who now control 67 per cent of the total market by size....
New continuing professional development (CPD) requirements for Financial Planning Association (FPA) practitioner members have been announced involving changes to the CPD ...


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...