Last night’s budget announcement will have minimal effect on financial markets, according to financial services industry sentiment....

IOOF Funds Management has introduced four wholesale trusts on the Australian market, expanding its range of investment opportunities....

Tower has increased its shareholding in master trust, Beacon Investment Management after it bought out the shareholdings of Grosvenor Securities....

Permanent Trustees’ three year plan to take the company from its traditional trustee base to a broad based financial services company has shown its first signs of success...

The founding members of the Evensky Group are dissolving their partnership only weeks before finalising finances they had sought for part of a US$45 million financial pla...

Ethical investing has been pushed even further to the forefront with a UK-based financial planning group, specialising in ethical investments, launching its Australian op...

Australian Financial Securities (AFS) is a dealer group with a difference, carving out a niche market in financial planning through access to venture capital investments....

The International CFP Council’s push to have an army of 130,000 licensees worldwide by 2005 could be achieved earlier than expected, according to US CFP Council chair Pat...

Macquarie has added three analysts to its New Zealand operations as part of a plan to boost coverage of stocks to 90 per cent of the New Zealand stock market....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has removed Triscott Investments as responsible entity of the Australian Managed Mortgage Investment Fund....

The Commonwealth only narrowly missed out from pipping National from the top of the table for total retail assets under management, the latest Assirt Market Share Report ...