Making compulsory superannuation work more effectively can provide substantial taxation relief to clients of financial planners, AMP technical services manager John Perri...
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has given up on its call for the Government to conduct a wholesale review of superannuation and will instead c...
Following the restructuring of its business six months earlier, Deakin Financial Services Group is now spreading its wings and going national as a company focussed on a s...
Niche marketing is not about scaling down your business – it’s the total opposite. Five financial planners tell KATE KACHOR and FIONA MOORE how niche markets have helped ...
International research and consulting firm Cerulli Associates has approached a number of Australian research organisations with an offer to forge formal ties ahead of a w...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has threatened to take its case directly to the Government if it fails to broker a solution with the insurance industry over the ...
One of Australia’s largest master trusts, Asgard, has dumped 16 funds offered by nine different fund managers from its investment menu as part of its latest revamp of the...
Influential funds management researcher Stephen van Eyk has placed his weight behind smaller boutique fund managers, urging investors to consider boutique managers as opp...
Tower Life Australia has launched a new disability income product aimed at providing a more individual insurance solution for clients....
Morningstar has confirmed BNP Paribas’s one star manager rating following the qualitative assessments of its subcontracted investment management and international equitie...
AMP has settled on two court proceedings: one class action which affected superannuation members and a second regarding insurer policies. ...
ASIC has released the results of the latest adviser exam, with August’s pass mark improving on the sitting from a year ago. ...
The inquiry into the collapse of Dixon Advisory and broader wealth management companies by the Senate economics references committee will not be re-adopted. ...
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...