The Securities Institute is to offer a Master of Applied Finance and Investment course from July onwards for what it terms Australia’s “finance elite”....
Austrust is to change its name to TOWER Trust as part of a move to bring it in line with its parent Tower Financial Services....
Australian members of AOL now have access to the Quicken.com.au investment service, thanks to a recent alliance formed between AOL in Australia and Intuit, a leading inte...
Self-managed funds have continued to be Australia's fastest growing sector in superannuation, according to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). ...
America's two top financial planning associations have announced plans to merge....
ParaPlanning Professionals, which claims to have pioneered the concept of contract paraplanning in Australia, has opened an office in New South Wales....
Regulators are set to apply the heat to financial planning groups and broking groups on Y2K readiness, following apparent apathy over the problem....
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has reacted strongly to news that two accounting bodies intend to set up independent financial planning designations....
Norwich Union has confirmed its future distribution strategy will be adviser-driven with no plans to introduce direct selling, says managing director James MacKenzie....
Arab Bank Australia will look at providing financial services products when the customers demand them, says managing director Jack Beighton....
Do you offer a housing loan service to your clients? Why/Why not?...
The overwhelming majority of financial advisers know very little about wrap accounts....
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?...