Women need financial advice, and the financial planning industry needs more women, writes AMP Horizons Academy's Tim Steele....

With less money going around, boutique fund managers are facing a dangerous period and those with unsustainable business structures are set to be driven out of the market...

By convincing younger financial advisers that 'sales' is not a dirty word, Synchron has reduced the average age of its representatives by 10 years since 2006, according t...

Ratings house Standard & Poor's points to the changes to AXA North since AMP acquisition and institutes some downgrades....

One of the men who led the Timbercorp Growers Group through a number of legal battles, Chris Garnaut, has written to ASIC raising issues around actions taken by the Respo...

Matthew Rowe will stay on as chairman of the Financial Planning Association board for another two-year term until November 2014....

BlackRock announced this week that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Swiss Re Private Equity Partners AG - the European private equity and infrastruct...

Documentation key to handling death benefit disputes within SMSFs, according to superannuation documentation provider Topdocs....

The Financial Services Council has broken new ground by ensuring CPD points will be available to delegates attending its annual conference on the Gold Coast, August 1-3....

The Macquarie Group Foundation has thrown its support behind Opportunity International Australia to undertake the next phase of its Social Performance Management micro-fi...