Is risk insurance becoming too risky for insurers?...
Advisers have an increasingly important role to play in helping the risk insurance market to refocus on long-term sustainability and offering real value to customers, wri...
Top-down fund managers have had a lean time of the past 3-4 years compared to their bottom-up counterparts, notes researcher Angela Ashton. But changing fashions and inve...
A third Adelaide-based financial adviser has been banned by ASIC in relation to the failed investment vehicle EC Consolidated Capital Limited (ECCCL)....
Financial planning has continued its boom run, with the latest figures from the Financial Planning Association (FPA) suggesting the sector has grown 20 per cent in the pa...
About 30 FPA chapter chairs, from as far afield as Lismore, Cairns, Shepparton and Perth, converged on the FPA offices in Melbourne last week to discuss the latest develo...
One of the pioneers of on-line financial services in Australia, AssetWare, is poised to become the country's largest independent research group following its proposed lis...
Contango Asset Management has won its first mandates from Sydney-based investors, co-director David Stevens has told <I>Money Management</I>....
Vanguard has become the fourth major fund manager to outsource its registry operations to BT Portfolio Services. ...
High profile investment researcher Stephen van Eyk has backed a new research outfit aimed at sifting the good from the bad in tax-effective agribusiness investments....
Money managers looking to land a new job can expect the next few months to offer their best opportunity in years, according to the latest Morgan & Banks job survey....
With three conferences on client portfolio management systems scheduled for Sydney over the next week or so, the master trust versus wrap account war appears to be escala...
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?...