Editorial

The heads of two of Australia’s leading investment research houses have signalled a return to relevance for active investment managers.Stephen...

As the end of the financial year approaches, product promoters will start to release this year’s tax-effective products. For clients...

So the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) intends to conduct another financial planning shadow shopping exercise some time after...

The past 12 months have proved immensely challenging for traditional financial planning providers. The previous several years of market-driven revenue...

Industry participants at the SPAA conference in Adelaide this week began voicing their concern about the increasing possibility of a...

In the 1980s, we financial planners called ourselves ‘investment advisers’, which described our primary function at the time. In the...

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has not made a good start to 2009. The fallout from the Storm Financial collapse...

Last year, as part of dismantling WorkChoices, the Rudd Government requested that the Australian Industrial Relations Commission begin an “award...

Mariner Financial has reported a loss of nearly $45 million from asset revaluations over the half-year ending December 2008.The losses...

IT now transpires that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) did receive four complaints relating to Storm Financial in...