The consolidation trend within financial services looks set to continue as activity within the partly Zurich owned Lonsdale and Bridgeport groups pick up pace....
Life insurers implementing a licence under the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) will have the assistance of a specialist conglomerate team....
High profile technical strategist Andrew Lowe has left AMP to join the technical team at ING, heading up technical investment strategy for its funds management business....
Since its outset, financial services dealer Investor Group Limited has blazed its way along an acquisition trail in the name of distribution expansion and business effici...
Financial planners and paraplanners have received a dose of reality as fast growing salary packages show the first signs of faltering. ...
Online financial services group InvestorWeb has signed a deal that will roll out its new web-based financial planning software to more than 100 advisers....
Fresh off the back of the alienation of personal services income legislation and the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB), the financial services industry has yet anothe...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) today released the second round of policy proposal papers (PPP) looking into licensing and administrative issu...
Perpetual Investments has rewarded two of its best performing business development managers with promotions following another raft of management changes which have accomp...
Perpetual Trustees has sold its custody and investment administration arm to the Royal Bank of Canada’s Royal Trust Global Securities Services....


ASIC has canceled the AFSL of Sydney-based asset consultant and research firm....
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...