The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has wound up the Financial Options Group Inc and the Australian Fund and has prohibited its directors from lea...

IMB Financial Planning (IMB FP), the joint venture between Ipac and IMB Limited, has expanded its presence in the planning industry with the acquisition of a majority sta...

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has renewed its calls for a public inquiry into the issue of Australians’ poor savings record, in the wake of Democrat Senator Al...

The crackdown on managed investment schemes has continued with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) suspending the securities dealers licence of Pl...

Advance Funds Management is about to launch an advertising campaign pitched directly at consumer rather than exclusively to financial advisers....

Financial planners are unhappy with the service they receive from financial service providers, notably in areas of staff helpfulness and underwriting new business, a rece...

ING Investment Management has made a pooled private equity fund available to sophisticated investors, a product until now reserved for institutional clients....

Ascalon Capital Managers, St George’s funds management incubator, has expanded its list of managers announcing the addition of a further two emerging managers to its pool...

AMP is considering a make-over or even a sale for its investment administration business, Cogent....

Garrisons founder John Sikkema will be vacating the managing director position of the Challenger-owned group and will move to executive chairman, which will herald in Kim...