A business set up by the CBA to take equity stakes in boutique financial planning groups has been shut down after only one year....
Tasmanian financial planner Brendan Moore could still escape criminal conviction when he is sentenced by a Federal judge on November 2, even though he pleaded guilty to t...
Sealcorp’s Assirt software brand is to be phased out as it becomes integrated into its practice management and transaction reporting software service, adviserNET....
With the FPA’s television commercials set to begin screening in two weeks, the association has gone into warm-up mode, with chief executive Kerrie Kelly today distributin...
The bank housing the second largest number of financial planners in Australia, the National Australia Bank, has announced it will invest $1.8 billion in rebuilding its Au...
A former director of the now defunct Whet Investments has been ordered to pay more than $200,000 to the failed company’s administrators following an investigation by the ...
Last week financial planners were given the first solid indication of what they will have to pay to comply with looming anti-money laundering legislation....
More than 75 per cent of the revenue and profits of the total Berkley Group will join the merger with Centrestone Wealth Advisers, despite over half of the group’s advise...
Financial planners are losing a significant portion of their business to technology as the use of online stock brokers skyrockets....
Accountancy giant Deloitte has released a web-based anti-money laundering tool, which it says will only cost financial planners the price of a hamburger....
AMP has settled on two court proceedings: one class action which affected superannuation members and a second regarding insurer policies. ...
ASIC has released the results of the latest adviser exam, with August’s pass mark improving on the sitting from a year ago. ...
The inquiry into the collapse of Dixon Advisory and broader wealth management companies by the Senate economics references committee will not be re-adopted. ...
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...