SOME of Australia’s leading investment specialists have come together to call on financial planners to hold their nerve and convince their clients to stay in Australian a...

An insurance group that has agreed to establish a facility to provide professional indemnity insurance for members of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) will tur...

Challenger International has turned the financial services sector’s push to have its proposed ‘growth pensions’ granted complying income stream status on its head, with t...

THE MELBOURNE-based Treasury Group has announced its intention to acquire a stake in a series of small fund managers as part of an ambitious bid to become an umbrella gro...

THE majority of the Commonwealth Bank’s commission-based financial planners have chosen to operate under the Financial Wisdom banner rather than adopt the Commonwealth’s ...

THE ASSOCIATION of Financial Advisers (AFA) will join the ranks of financial planning educators after linking up with Integratec to develop a series of training courses f...

Tower Asset Management has fallen victim to the continuing instability of the wider Tower group, receiving a weak rating from research house Morningstar for its business ...

Perpetual Investments has taken a step away from its key man approach to the management of its flagship Australian equities fund, the Perpetual Industrial Share Fund, in ...

The subtle changes currently being made to the Hillross/AMP model reflects a repositioning of the value propositions of both businesses. GEORGE LIONDIS reports on what is...

The professional indemnity crisis is hitting the financial services industry hard. GEORGE LIONDIS investigates what planners and dealer groups are up against....