Research group Lonsec is remaining relatively up-beat about the future prospects of hedge fund investments, despite what it identifies as looming challenges for the secto...

AMP has announced $40 million worth of fee cuts to its key superannuation and retirement income products ahead of the new choice of superannuation environment....

The National Australia Group owned Garvan Financial Planning and MLC Financial Planning dealer groups are facing a groundswell of dissatisfaction from their 600 advisers ...

AMP has confirmed that it is willing to review its investment platform strategy as part of a bid to rejuvenate its wealth management business under new chief executive An...

It is not every financial planner who can count a meeting with the Prime Minister as a career highlight....

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) have formed a joint task force to fight against state Government pro...

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has moved a step closer to setting up its own in-house professional indemnity (PI) insurance solution for members, calling on a r...

New Zealand based financial services group Tower has announced a $NZ35.8 million writedown of its Australian financial planning business, Bridges Financial Services, to r...

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has issued a blunt message to self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) warning the honeymoon period in its regulation of the sector ...

Consolidation has become a key to employment prospects within the financial services sector. George Liondis reports on how three went into one at the combined Westpac / B...