Former National Asset Management (NAM) managing director Paul Laband has been signed by Towers Perrin to head up investment management at TRM and head up its asset consul...
US fund managers have taken advantage of laws allowing them to sell funds over the Internet using electronic signatures....
A strong recovery in hotel property helped the listed property trust sector outper-form equity markets in the three months to September 30....
Tower Trust is restructuring its senior management ranks following its acquisition of IOOF’s trustee business and the merger of Tower’s Australian and New Zealand trustee...
Former FPA chairman Wes McMaster has become the first financial planner in Australia to be anointed a professor....
There has been a rush of financial services groups launching products that allow investors in Telstra II instalment receipts to defer their final payment. Macquarie Bank ...
Towers Perrin has been awarded the largest outsourcing deal in Australia’s corporate superannuation history....
Macquarie has embarked on a $5 million print advertising campaign aimed at dispelling perceptions that Macquarie is only aimed at the big end of town....
St George has spent $10 million on a 7 per cent stake in burgeoning accounting and financial planning consolidator Stockford, valuing the group at nearly $150 million....
Skandia doesn’t do manufacturing and it doesn’t do retailing. Stuart Engel discovers exactly what it is the Swedish based financial services giant intends to do in Austra...


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...