But equity and property market devaluations over the financial year hit revenue....
Prime Financial Group has posted a 55 per cent fall in net profit after tax for the 2009 full year, partly as a result of a 30 per cent fall in financial planning recurri...
In the final part of their series on the risks of margin lending, PAUL RESNIK and PETER WORCESTER conclude that planners need to stress test a client’s portfolio in order...
Unchanged profit of $1.6 million, while revenue drops 2 per cent....
IOOF Holdings has flagged the sale of its life insurance business in its 2009 annual results, in which it posted a 32.1 per cent loss in net profit to $15.85 million....
Suncorp's profit for the 2008-09 financial year fell 40 per cent in what chairman John Story called a challenging year for the group....
Dealer group suffers impairment charges of $17 million and funds under advice drop 16 per cent....
Life is messy, and investing is no exception. Dominic McCormick writes why he believes investors are not well served by current asset allocation methods....
There’s zero correlation between the number of pages in an offer document and investment performance. Yep, you can make money from a fat prospectus and lose it on a skinn...
Two interesting and welcome events occurred in the financial planning industry last week – the Financial Planning Association (FPA) agreed with the Association of Financi...
Is the financial services industry ready to embrace a different regulatory model in circumstances where ASIC has not lived up to the expectations of some? Mike Taylor rep...
Despite software cancellations, revenue for wealth management division up 4 per cent....
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...