Consumer complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service relating to financial planning and managed investments are soaring in number....

The Senior Australian Equity Release Association of Lenders has called on the Federal Government to include reverse mortgages within its $8 billion special relief package...

The longstanding 'Best Advice Project', a trial co-operative of 12 separate advice firms, will officially operate under the single brand Shadforths Financial Group from J...

Standard & Poor's is considering integrating its Australian and European fund research businesses, and have made two key appointments aimed at achieving this. ...

Most financial advice firms in Australia are sufficiently profitable to ride out the current market downturn, according to Terry Bell, director of financial planning rese...

AIMS Financial Group (AIMS) planning to make strategic investments in other companies following its 15.8 per cent stake in struggling property funds manager MacarthurCook...

Small and medium-sized enterprise owners could make a costly mistake by trying to sell their business simply because financial conditions are tight and they have no alter...

The establishment of a new consumer helpline by the National Information Centre for Retirement Investments has proved a boon for the sector, according to Martin Lynch of ...

Brisbane-based financial software provider Supercorp has acquired MYOB's superannuation software business, which services hundreds of accounting firms throughout Australi...

New annual risk premiums for lump sum business (term life, TPD and trauma) increased by 14.21 per cent to $815.38 million at December 2008, according to a survey by resea...