Tower Limited has completed a major reshuffle of its board following the appointment of two new directors - John Spencer and Maurice Loomes....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has moved to make it easier for corporate groups to satisfy the cash needs requirement under Policy Statement ...

Financial planning software provider IWL released VisiPlan version 5.8 last week and is already gearing up for version 5.9 – to be released in late October and include op...

Last week a senate committee released its recommendations on retirement income and as Freya Purnell writes politicians remain divided on the issue despite widespread indu...

Uncertainty over the performance of BT/Sagitta’s new Australian equity and property teams has resulted in a lukewarm assessment of the group’s capabilities from research ...

Long/short funds are the darling buds of hedge funds as their strategies are “impossible to beat” and offer investors an investment “nirvana” in comparison to the strateg...

Former Tasmanian financial adviser Mervyn William Mitchell appeared in Hobart Magistrates Court today on 110 charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments ...

Assistant Treasurer Senator Helen Coonan has signalled the Government will not be departing from its approach to superannuation portability despite its portability regula...

They were household names in the late 80s and early 90s, but, as Freya Purnell reports, some of the biggest and best known dealer groups of the time simply are no more....

Victorian-based adviser Bernie Toohey has been named the inaugural ‘Zurich Adviser of the Year’, by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and Zurich Financial Servi...