Platforms have been usurping the role of advisers by constructing barriers to entry, according to Heathcote Investments Partners director, Clayton Coplestone....

Former NAB financial planner, Graeme Cowper, has commenced defamation proceedings against Fairfax Media, two of its journalists, and whistle-blower, Jeff Morris....

Federation Centres chief executive, Steven Sewell, has agreed to leave the company after playing a key role in the shopping centre giant’s merger with the Novion Property...

Changes to gaming legislation in Queensland are set to make the state’s pubs an enticing proposition for investors, after a bumper year for hotel transaction....

Fund administration and registry technology provider GBST has signed a major UK diversified financial services provider to its software system expanding the group’s inter...

Planning group signs with superannuation and corporate compliance software to offer accountants licensing solution....

Despite being more worried about retirement income shortfall, Australian women gave less thought towards planning forward than men....

The term robo-advice needs to be better defined as reflecting its current focus on compliance and risk profiling instead of actual advice, according to the head of an adv...

Suncorp Group Limited has announced its full-year profits have increased to more than $1.1 billion for the year to 30 June 2015....

A change in attitude towards money and out-dated trust fund structures were acting as a lethal combination, leading to increased trust fund disputes....

Former NAB financial planner, Graeme Cowper, is suing the ABC over its reporting of allegedly poor financial advice provided by the bank’s advisers....

A specialist financial services lawyer has questioned whether planners can be held negligent for not recommending SMSFs to super fund members with high account balances....

Privately owned financial planning group Fitzpatricks Private Wealth has signed another senior planner from a competitor, the second move of its kind in the past month....

SMSF advice group Dixon Advisory has paid $20,000 in penalties related to potentially misleading claims around the costs and performance of SMSFs....

Novion's McNaughton succeeds Sewell as chief executive of specialist retail property manager, Federation Centres....

SMSF administration provider BGL links with Accurium to deliver actuarial certificates via Simple Fund 360....

UniSuper announces two external appointments to its risk and legal services team to deal with governance issues....

Standard Life appoints two new multi-asset specialists as it builds its Asia-Pacific strategy....

RSM Bird Cameron has kicked off a regional expansion by opening a Toowoomba presence....

Dalton Nicol Reid recruits former UBS staffer, Scott Kelly to the group’s investment team....