THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has not ruled out the possibility of the combined National Australia/MLC group being required to pay further c...

Indy Singh has built a business based on vision and a fax. BARBARA MESSER spoke with him about his vision and the contents of the fax....

While property remains a favoured asset class, syndicates are once again in the spotlight. But, as JOHN WILKINSON writes, planners should continue to tread carefully in t...

Since February 2001 when the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced it would conduct a review of solicitor’s mortgages schemes, ASIC has acted ...

IT IS easy to see both sides of the argument in what could quickly escalate into a full blown legal dispute between the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Assoc...

A Melbourne financial planner has been banned from acting as a representative of a securities dealer or investment adviser for life....

MLC has announced that it will compensate investors in its superannuation products who suffered a loss in the value of their investment when they were transferred from si...

Australia is playing a leading role among 16 other countries associated with the International Organization for Standards (ISO) in developing an international standard fr...

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will begin a series of campaigns targeting commissions and disclosure in a three-pronged strategy as part of i...

Old Stan Pendergast had a stack of fibro down the back past the chook shed, and each time one of his seven children arrived, he picked up a few sheets and added another b...

THE former head of Australian Unity Funds Management, Craig Dunstan, is setting up his own boutique fund management operation in Melbourne....

The professional indemnity crisis is hitting the financial services industry hard. GEORGE LIONDIS investigates what planners and dealer groups are up against....

Independent, small planning businesses and dealer groups have asked for a clearer set of compliance processes under the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA), removing wha...

For those Australian investors who have prided themselves on complaining about anything and everything for much of their lives, here’s a spanner for your works....