Support for a compulsory retirement savings system in New Zealand continues to gain ground according to the latest SaverPulse survey. Head of the Investment Savings and I...
Commission disclosure for life insurance products is no stranger to controversy. Gareth Cosslett asks if the latest battle, concerning two pieces of key financial service...
Enthusiasm for the inaugural conference of the Financial Planners and Investment Advisers Association (FPIA) appears muted with attendance numbers projected to fall below...
J B Were Trusts has swapped international equity investment mangers, changing from Morgan Stanley to Wellington Management Company LLP....
Merrill Lynch has made its much-anticipated first move into distribu-tion by recruiting financial planners as part of a plan to reposition itself as a total financial sol...
NSP Buck's personal financial services division hopes to double its planner numbers by December in an aggressive move on the retail fi-nancial planning market....
Investment performance is still the most important consideration for clients de-ciding which product to invest in, a funds management and consumers study has found....
In less than a fortnight, the first conference to combine wholesale and retail financial services kicks off in Melbourne. Two of the IFSA conference's keynote speakers sp...
Technology stocks are generally not overvalued if evaluated in terms of the longer-term changes that are occurring to the economy....
As part of a new drive into the retail market, Dresdner RCM Global Investors (DRCM) has acquired Jardine Fleming Australia's unit trust business in Austra-lia. ...
Profits for margin lending providers are artificially high, according to an industry figure....
FlexiPlan managing director Sue Thomas has sold her 20 per cent stake in the business to MLC and stepped down as managing director....
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?...