Competition amongst Australia’s providers of retail funds management research is set to intensify, with two minor players renewing their push for a bigger slice of the bu...
THE Merrill Lynch Investment Management group commands more loyalty from its customers than all other fund managers, even though it accounts for less than one per cent of...
FINANCIAL Planners could be forced to show in Product Disclosure Statements (PDSs) all the fees and commissions they receive from selling funds management products under ...
AMP FINANCIAL Planning has made it four in a row after once again topping the Money Management’s Top 100 Dealer Group survey, despite the fact its planner numbers dropped...
Perpetual Trustee and the James Fielding Group have signed a joint venture to form a new funds management outfit focused on the listed property securities market....
AMP financial planners have reacted positively to the appointment of Andrew Mohl as the permanent chief executive of the financial services giant....
The Challenger International group has been forced by its auditor to seek an independent assessment of the methodology used to determine the value of its property assets....
THE increasingly bitter dispute between the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) over financial planning designations has ...
The low level of Australia’s household cash savings could prove a major crisis for the country in the future, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has warned....
THE Treasury Group has flatly denied speculation it will finance a new boutique fund management operation by the soon to depart senior portfolio manager at Perpetual, Pet...


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...