Professional Investment Services’ acquisition of Canadian financial planning chain Generation Financial Corporation is part of the planning group’s international expansio...
Centro Property Group has launched its $1 billion MCS 38 property syndicate, the largest to enter the Australian market to date....
Research showing that 69 per cent of self-employed or small-business people have no income protection has prompted Asteron to upgrade its life insurance and Wealthstar pr...
Many financial planners don’t like what they are doing and want to get out, but there are things they can do to change their attitudes, according to finance industry cons...
Merrill Lynch Investment Managers expects the US$1.046 trillion merger with BlackRock to provide greater global access to the fixed interest and property markets....
Distressed debt is one prospective growth area within the private equities space identified by Standard & Poor’s latest asset allocation report....
Consistency of service and a broader lifestyle focus for clients are crucial for financial planners in the current marketplace, according to Matthew Lock, managing direct...
ING Financial Planning and ING’s largest dealer group, RetireInvest, will be combining their back-office operations from January, next year....
After an extensive consultation period with industry bodies and other stakeholders, the Government has announced the final version of its Plan to Simplify and Streamline ...
Financial planners without an understanding of how equity release and reverse mortgage products work could be ignoring this section of the industry at their own peril, ac...
Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...
ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...
ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...