Ross Christie, Colin Grenfell, Dr Carolyn Re, Katy Adams and Ella de Rooy will remain with the board for an additional three years....
Margin lending can reap rewards for investors when times are good, but can prove disastrous in bear markets. LUCINDA BEAMAN finds out what makes up a successful margin le...
Research conducted by CoreData shows that Australian financial planners have lost approximately 215,000 clients over the past 12 months. But perhaps even more disturbing ...
The industry is cranking up its opposition to a plan by some large corporations as well as economists to reform dividend imputation tax, including scrapping franking cred...
The government subsidies being given to first home owners, at a time when interest rates are low and unemployment is on the rise, could be adding to an already heavy debt...
Fundamental issues in the new consumer credit protection regime, such as the definition around 'responsible lending' requirements and the new external dispute resolution ...
Financial services lawyer Peter Bobbin has rejected calls for more regulation around the roles played by financial product salesman and financial advisers, saying a recen...
A Queensland-based financial planner has made a submission to the parliamentary inquiry into financial services and banking practices in which he calls for stricter defin...
Storm Financial and its former offshoot, Victorian Families Retirement and Investment Group, will meet in court in Brisbane today in what is believed to be the formal end...
The group's investment business suffered poor net flows in the first quarter of 2009, but its insurance business remains a strong performer. The results come on the back ...
After last month’s surprise hold, the Reserve Bank of Australia has announced its latest interest rate decision....
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...
WT Financial’s Keith Cullen is eager for its Hubco initiative to see advice firms under its licence trade at multiples which are catching up to those UK and US financial ...
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?...