Independent financial planners remain the number one choice for consumers looking for financial advice, according to the recent Challenger International/ Assirt Invest-me...
Professional Investment Services (PIS) has continued its meteoric rise in financial planning circles with the acquisition of Australia’s biggest life brokerage IFMA...
Early retirement due to difficulty in finding work will soon be a thing of the past. According to a BIS Shrapnel report, employment problems faced by older people will di...
Former Tyndall investment director Doug Little has emerged as the chief of new boutique funds management group Constellation Capital Management....
Independent financial planners remain the number one choice for consumers looking for financial advice, according to the recent Challenger International/ Assirt Invest-me...
Fiducian Portfolio Services has laid down its plans for a listing on the Australian Stock Exchange....
St George Bank has launched its second venture capital fund with the release of a $64 million wholesale pooled development fund focussing on the booming technology and In...
Mercantile Mutual has embarked on an aggressive growth strategy for its financial planning business....
Swiss Re, one of the biggest reinsurance groups in the world, has purchased US-based Underwriters Re, the property and casualty reinsurer of Alleghany Corp, for $US725 mi...


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...