RetireInvest chief executive George Haramis has resigned from his post citing family commitments. He will officially depart the head role at the ING owned dealer group in...

While 2004 was the year of the boutique, 2005 was, well, the year of the boutique....

The Commonwealth Bank has constructed a separate, walk-in investment management section in its Bondi Junction branch, in the hope of attracting more bank clients to its w...

Macquarie Bank has signed an American fund manager that invests in global property securities to the fifth instalment of its Professional Series....

The ATO has expressed concern at the continuing use of the term ‘do-it-yourself super’ when referring to self-managed superannuation arguing that it can conjure up inappr...

Australian equities funds available through Colonial First State’s joint venture with US-based asset managers Acadian will be offered to Australian retail investors for t...

One of the five listed independent financial planning firms, Fiducian Portfolio Services, enjoyed a positive end to 2005, posting a healthy half-year profit and expanding...

In further proof that choice of fund was no more than a flash in the pan for advisers, a new survey has found just a third of the very few people who switched funds and s...

Planning practices have been urged by the Financial Planing Association (FPA) to appoint a ‘conflicts officer’ in order to comply with new regulations, but the associatio...

Post graduate degree qualified people will no longer be able to gain an exemption from four out of the five units that must be obtained to receive the Certified Financial...