The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned Martin James Donohue from acting as a representative of a securities dealer or investme...
The Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner (OFPC) has released guidelines on what happens to client data when financial advisers move to another dealer group....
Deutsche Asset Management has announced the head of DB Real Estate Mark Ford will retire due to ill-health, with former Westfield Holdings funds management head Victor Ho...
Challenger Financial Services is investigating a move back into the platform market after the appointment of David Coyne as head of platform development....
Platinum Asset Management and Macquarie Wrap Solutions have resolved a brief but public dispute after Platinum moved to withdraw its funds from the latter’s platform inve...
Fund managers accepting deposits or funds from the public will be slugged with additional costs and increased compliance demands if new international due diligence guidel...
Perpetual Investments has unveiled details of its own low cost platform, WealthFocus, ahead of next month’s launch as a response to changing market needs and an assessmen...
The CARM group has struck a deal to integrate its goals-based financial planning software with hub provider InvestmentLink’s e-Portfolio service to provide a new complian...
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Senator Ian Campbell, reinforced his commitment to continuing the current reform momentum at an Investment and Financial Service...
The Federal Government will today gazette amended superannuation portability regulations after having reached agreement with the Australian Democrats on the consolidation...
AMP Limited has cleared one of the final hurdles to the demerger of its Australian and UK operations, following receipt today of ‘in principle’ approval from the Australi...
When the chairman of Hunter Hall International, Peter Hall, founded the ethical fund manager back in 1994, it was a one-man band that took four years to reach $30 million...
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...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...