The Financial Industry Complaints Scheme (FICS) has agreed to undergo major changes after an independent review called for a revaluation of its complaints handling proced...
Financial planning software provider IWL has extended its takeover offer for online broking group Sanford by two weeks after a muted response from Sanford’s shareholders....
The Westpac Bank passed a major landmark in its integration of the BT Financial Group today after it announced the roll out of BT’s wrap platform to its in-house financia...
Australia’s peak industry body for the superannuation industry, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), has warned the Government that any increased ...
The push by Australian groups into the budding Asian financial planning market is set to continue, with news that Ipac Securities is preparing to launch financial plannin...
Australia’s chief standards setting organisation, Standards Australia, has weighed into the debate about the quality of financial planning advice by revealing plans to de...
The principals of Stockford financial planning practices will be forced to negotiate with administrators to regain control of their businesses after the troubled group sl...
The influential van Eyk research group has placed BT/Sagitta’s listed property funds on a ‘Hold’ rating following the recent resignation of the group’s head of listed pro...
The Tower-owned Bridges dealer group has announced plans to open three new financial planning offices....
Sharemarket information system provider Iress Market Technology has made another bid to enter the financial planning software market, just four months after the collapse ...


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...