Any plans of a merger between the Life Insurance Complaints Service (LICS) and the Financial Services Complaints Resolution Scheme (FSCRS) have been scuttled, at least in...
With less than a month in the managing director seat, Garry Mulcahy has already set his sights on new opportunities for the FlexiPlan master trust operations. Samantha Wa...
Research group van Eyk has issued a hold recommendation on all Tyndall Investment Management products, following internal turmoil in the group....
Victorian-based financial planning firm CIS Financial Services has landed its biggest single client account following Asgard’s recent successful tender to provide its ser...
A significant number of funds management groups missed the June 30 deadline for lodgement of trustee retirement notices under the Managing Investments Act (MIA), accordin...
A new financial planning firm has bucked the industry trend, with its planners leaving a major corporation’s ranks to set up shop on their own....
By offering choice to employees, the superannuation industry is boosting the demand for financial advice. But super funds are going head to head with financial planning g...
Ipac Securities has entered the South African market with the purchase of a 50 per cent stake in the unit trust business of Brait SA....
High profile financial planner Garry Avis has joined up with well-known superannuation consultant Robert MC Brown and Darryl Pike to set up Bridgeport Advisers & Asset Ma...
Auditor Michael Charlton is the latest casualty of the ASIC's con-tinuing investigations into Feldworth Financial Services and the failed investment vehicle EC Consolidat...


AMP has agreed in principle to settle an advice and insurance class action that commenced in 2020 related to historic commission payment activity. ...
Advice firms are increasing their base salaries by as much as $50k to attract talent, particularly seeking advisers with a portable book of clients, but equity offerings ...
ASIC has released the results of the latest financial adviser exam, held in November 2025....
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...