The risks of chasing fund manager performance have been highlighted by the revelation in a new study that top-performing retail share funds one year invariably have lackl...
AMP shares rose more than 25 per cent today to highs of $6.52 after National Australia Bank’s purchase of 34.3 million shares hinted to the market that the National is po...
China’s fledgling asset management marketplace will eclipse the more established Hong Kong market in size by the end of the year when it will boast US$26.7 billion in ret...
Morningstar’s new quantitative measuring rating system released last Friday has fuelled major changes to fund manager ratings in New Zealand....
Financial planning software provider Syscorp has signed a deal with US-based Advent Software to provide local client support and consulting to the global group’s Australi...
A new technology start-up company, WealthCare Mutual, is set to launch a software program into the financial services market enabling advisers and their clients to fully ...
Research house Standard and Poor’s (S&P) will not charge up front fees to funds management groups to be rated marking a departure from its globally used pricing system....
Nearly 60 Australian fund managers have been set a July 18 deadline by the New Zealand Securities Commission to investigate possible breaches of regulations in filing do...
AMP affiliated financial advisers in New Zealand are thumbing their noses at a proposed support package by the company to help them through the de-merger process....
Clients may be facing “poorer” and “fragmented” advice on superannuation fund structures under the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) if accountants are unable to give ...
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has reacted to industry criticism of the findings of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services ...
Shareholders of the Snowball Group have presented no obstacle to a $1.3 million dollar capital raising designed to drive growth and acquisition opportunities within the c...
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...