The attention generated by the shadow shopping survey appears to have paralysed the industry, argues Tom Collins....
Adelaide-based financial planner David Middleton has called on the industry to come up with a risk-profiling process that puts the client’s needs first or run the risk of...
UBS Global Asset Management (GAM) has repeated its success in the Money Management/Assirt Fund Manager of the Year Award by taking out top honours with a second back to b...
The inaugural Business Development Manager (BDM) of the Year Award was hugely popular, with hundreds of readers nominating 98 BDMs for the award. Culling the list to a ma...
In the current environment, most advisers are striving to control costs, improve profit margins and lift productivity. But what targets should they strive for? Richard Ra...
Managed funds research house Assirt has given Citigroup Asset Management Australia (CitiAM) a mixed report card stating it is performing well in domestic markets but need...
Van Eyk Research has added another consultant to its agribusiness division, van Eyk Capital, with Dr Peter Dry now assisting analysis in the firm’s annual agribusiness re...
First Foundation Developments and its senior employees will have $1.8 million assets frozen for running an alleged unregistered managed investment scheme....
Platforms may make financial planners’ lives easier, but Lisa Bowman asks whether they offer consumers value for money, and whether fee levels will change going forward....
A former company executive has been sentenced to a 12 month jail term, after pleading guilty to six charges laid by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (...
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) will be undertaking a significant review of AMP’s proposal to de-merge its operations in Australia and the UK prior ...
Melbourne based financial planner and past Financial Planning Association (FPA) chair, John Hewison launched an attack on managed funds at the Certified Financial Planner...
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...