Who is best qualified to give advice, accountants or planners, has been a long running debate. John Wilkinson looks at how this debate is developing and the influence of ...
Supplying a complete administration service for self managed superannuation funds is where the major opportunities lie for planners in superannuation according to Tower T...
While the explosion of information has led to more savvy clients, the role of the adviser is still crucial. Kate Kachor finds that education is about information, present...
Retail investors have never had it so good in terms of the information available to them regarding investments and this doesn't seem to be tapering off. ...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will announce a replacement for former FPA chief executive officer, Michael McKenna, in early October, according to FPA Chairman ...
ALMOST three years to the day since the collapse of his Canberra investment businesses, former high profile industry figure, Max Vardanega, has been banned for life from ...
Deutsche Asset Management (DAM) has appointed Andrew Fay as chief investment officer (CIO) following the decision of former CIO, Karl Sternberg, to focus solely on his UK...
FORMER insurance and superannuation agent, Ivan Thomas Merlin of Ballarat, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment, after being charged with larceny and charges rel...
Fund manager and financial planning firm, Fiducian Portfolio Services, has closed its $22.4 initial million public offering oversubscribed....
MACQUARIE Bank has become one of the first local financial services providers to provide screen scraping facilities with the rollout of a Web site to customers....
Financial planners and boutique fund manager Fiducian Portfolio Services closed on its first day of trading just four cents down on its $1.20 issue price....
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?...