Former Financial Planning Association (FPA) chairman Ray Griffin has become the first non-American financial planner to be elected chairman of the International Certfied ...
Financial planning industries around the world are facing unique challenges. KATE KACHOR reports on how the Japanese, US and UK financial planning industries are respondi...
The head of the Count Financial group, Barry Lambert, has confirmed the group has lent close to $1 million to one of its largest franchisees in a bid to purchase another ...
A former Canberra financial planner linked to failed investment scheme, the Wattle Group, has pleading guilty to 13 charges of breaching sections of the Corporations Law,...
Legal practitioners specialising in family law could be forced to include trained financial planners into their practices by the end of this year following amendments to ...
In a bid to further boost its national financial planning presence, Garrisons has signed a strategic partnership with West Australian dealer group, Epic Asset Management....
International equities have experienced a massive dive in positive fund performances. KATE KACHOR looks at the reasons for bad performances and how managers are repairing...
The UK subsidiary of Australian financial services group Challenger International has been granted a licence by the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) to bring its i...
Former AGC managing director John Malouf has joined financial services group Stockford as its managing director and chief executive officer....
Count Financial has further strengthened its ties with BT Funds Management by badging BT’s multi-manager range of funds under its Compound banner and recommending the ran...


BlackRock Australia plans to launch a Bitcoin ETF later this month, wrapping the firm’s US-listed version which is US$85 billion in size....
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...