New Zealand-based financial services firm Tower has suggested an end to its recent troubles after posting a strong full year result today, with the group now moving to co...
A trio of superannuation funds totalling collective assets of nearly $700 million and more than 13,000 members today announced their decisions to outsource the operation ...
Bridgeport Advisers and Asset Managers has been placed in voluntary administration after its major creditor and shareholder, Zurich Financial Services, invoked a contract...
Accountancy body CPA Australia has identified a substantial knowledge gap among those involved in self-managed superannuation funds, with claims that around a third do no...
Bendigo Investment Services has restructured its financial planning division by abandoning the traditional adviser reporting lines through state managers in favour of cre...
Westpac Bank has become the second big fish in as many months to sign-up emerging technology firm Coin Software at the expense of more established players, after the bank...
The corporate regulator has given the strongest indication yet that it will act to ease the compliance burden on advisers under the Financial Services Reform (FSR) Act, h...
BT Financial Group has contacted up to 50,000 New Zealand investors to notify them of its intention to return to the High Court in Wellington and hopefully conclude an on...
ING-owned RetireInvest has played down suggestions it’s franchised proprietors and financial planners are unhappy on masse despite a small group of Victorian advisers ind...
MLC is counting the cost of an internal system error that has resulted in the overpayment of commissions to financial planners and could cost the group several million do...


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...