The recent Money Management Rating the Raters Survey, which gauged fund managers’ attitudes to research houses, has drawn responses from the research groups featured in t...
Very few people in the industry would have failed to notice the push to higher education standards that have been going on in recent years, especially after it received a...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has called on planners to prepare and apply for the new financial services licence now instead of putting it o...
Symetry, the portfolio administration service supplier, has signed up two more dealer groups to its master trust and wrap platform service this year as it moves to a targ...
<i>Money Management</i><i>’</i><i>s</i> ‘Rating the Raters’ survey featured in this edition began to generate a lot of interest even before the last words had been writte...
Partnership Planning head of research Lynne Curtis has left the group to start an independent funds management and asset allocation research group....
Financial planning group RetireInvest has indicated that this year it will embark on an ambitious growth program to increase it planner numbers from 267 to 310 as well as...
OFM Investment Group, created out of the demutualisation of the Over 50s Mutual Friendly Society in July last year, has stated it will list on the Australian Stock Exchan...
<caps>As the</caps> deadline for the long heralded new Financial Services Reform (FSR) gets closer, much activity is taking place....
Derivative products have been sidestepped by planners but as Jason Spits writes they are moving out of the shadows....
After last month’s surprise hold, the Reserve Bank of Australia has announced its latest interest rate decision....
Libby Roy has been appointed as an independent non-executive director on the board of AZ NGA....
A professional year supervisor has been banned for five years after advice provided by his provisional relevant provider was deemed to be inappropriate, the first time th...
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...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...