The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has criticised proposals to include assets held in private trusts and private companies as part of the means test for the age pen...

Contract paraplanners may be painted into a corner under proposals being consid-ered by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Paraplanning outsourc...

Macquarie Investment Management has set the pace for what advisers can expect when it comes to the impact of GST on their hip pockets....

Perth-based Saw James Capel’s two most senior financial advisers – Kevin Payne and Patrick Horneman - have left to start their own company....

The Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) complaints resolution scheme is to be rolled into the operations of its only competitor....

Independent financial planners remain the number one choice for consumers looking for financial advice, according to the recent Challenger International/ Assirt Invest-me...

High profile industry figure Toby Potter is to leave Ausmaq in late January to be-gin work with research house Morningstar....

The Australian economy is entering 2000 firing on all cylinders. The unemployment rate is at 9½ year lows, building approvals are at 5 year highs, housing finance commitm...

Industry pundits believe that planning groups and fund managers could be set for a tough year in 2000, following 1999 buying revelry. Samantha Walker investigates just wh...

As the New Year dawns, some industry pundits took the time to gaze into their crystal balls. Jason Spits reports on what they saw for the world economy in 2000. No man’s...

Table: The All Ords at the end of 2000 Macquarie Bank’s Greg Matthews 3100 Ord Minnett’s David Cassidy 3200 BT Funds Management’s Michael Coop 3300 JB Were’s Jus...