The Financial Planning Association (FPA) today launched its Professional Partners initiative in a bid to raise public confidence levels in the industry, and has appointed...
LARGE financial planning groups must reconsider the structure and culture of their businesses to avoid losing clients to more adaptable and individually focused smaller i...
Three major industry groups have called for changes to the taxation arrangements for the provision of financial advice in submissions to the Senate Select Committee on Su...
Independent ratings company Adviser Ratings has found that almost a third of financial planners have noticed a change in business volume since the release of the Australi...
AXA has poached the head of independent adviser sales at St George, Paul Robertson, to head up the AXA Financial Planning business....
Delays in the issuance of product rulings by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) has threatened the ability of a number of prominent agribusiness managed investment schemes t...
The long-awaited superannuation and family law legislation that allows couples to divide their superannuation on marriage breakdown came into effect in December 2002. Tan...
Despite growing assets under management by some $1 billion over the past year, Citigroup Asset Management (CAM), the Australian asset management business of the US-based ...
As market conditions continue to fluctuate and financial planners feel the pressure, a positioning strategy paves the way for strong growth. Chris Dionne talks to Melinda...
Perpetual Investments has emerged as the strongest smaller companies fund manager in Morningstar’s new Australian Equities Smaller Companies qualitative sector strength r...
UBS Global Asset Management has been named the InvestorWeb Research Six Star Fund Manager, 2003. InvestorWeb gave the group line honours for demonstrating broad strengths...
Value and growth funds management styles became increasingly muddled during the month of April, according to the latest Intech performance survey, as Australian and inter...
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?...