MercMut seems to have a habit of high flying execs attracting the spotlight and being whisked away by parent company ING....

More than half of all DIY superannuation funds will eventually be rolled into master trusts in the next few years, a Melbourne fund manager has predicted....

Most dealers make every effort to comply with both the spirit and the requirements of the law. The smartest ones seek to use their compliance behaviour as a competitive a...

Citicorp Investments is to launch its first wrap account, appointing BT Portfolio Services as the back office administrator....

The Financial Planners and Insurance Advisers Association (FPIA) has launched a Web site in an attempt to lift the profile of the organisation....

Financial planning co-operative Fiducian Portfolio Services is to bring forward the date for its listing to capitalise on the high prices currently being offered for fina...

US-based online financial services giant Charles Schwab and Barclays are to create create an online foreign exchange where Schwab investors outside the US can buy and sel...

It has often been said that stock brokers and securities traders look down on the fi-nancial planning industry. That's going to be less likely in future, according to War...

Perpetual Private Clients’ group executive Wayne Wilson likes a bit of a wager every now and then. And we’re not talking the odd tenner, either. This is why Wil-son has i...

It won’t be long before a host of Australian Internet sites will being doing many of the tasks that keep financial planners busy. But, according to Hillross Financial Ser...

A number of high profile financial planning personalities have been cemented in the Financial Planning Association (FPA) almanacs for their efforts in building the 11,000...