Despite a record haul of enforcement outcomes for the 2002/03 financial year, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has pledged to be even more ruth...
The final draft of a set of international standards for financial planning should be ready for comment next March....
IWL will officially release its updated version of VisiWeb this week with the new features pushing it more into the realm of advisers and redefining it as a financial pla...
The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has moved to shore up what it perceives as a gap in knowledge standards available for financial planners who provide advice on listed ...
Financial planning group Lowell Flinders Group (LFG) has revealed ambitions of becoming a 'dealer of dealers' and is close to signing up a number of financial services gr...
Peak accountancy body CPA Australia has launched an FSR Licence Holder Directory in a bid to smooth the path to involvement in financial planning for its members....
Veteran risk adviser John Zwiers says the great trouble with the financial planning industry is that it pays lip service to the risk industry – and it has got to stop....
For the first time ever, the FPA convention included a CFP retreat to which only CFPs were invited. John Wilkinson spoke with keynote speaker, Peter Webb....
In the last decade computers and technology have been responsible for many redundancies in the workplace, and those further down the financial services food chain could b...
Hub provider InvestmentLink will now offer consolidated data for 13 platforms and fund managers via its e-Portfolio Transaction Service after the addition of the recently...
The announcement of a healthy 15.6 per cent growth in funds under administration for St George-owned Sealcorp over the past twelve months today has significantly boosted ...
Trust Company has set in place the final stage of its push to expand external distribution of its Australian equity products with the appointment of Allianz Dresdner Asse...
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?...