Australian Unity is one of the few mutual groups still in the financial services market and, as John Wilkinson writes, its new managing director plans to make sure it sta...
Financial planning practices have reached a stage that I would describe as mature. However, financial planning businesses are struggling to deal with an old business mode...
A serious rift is developing between consumers and the financial planning industry over the release of a damning report criticising the quality of financial planning advi...
It promises to be a busy year for advisers and their clients. Andrew Lawless outlines key dates for 2003....
It’s been three years since Money Management last profiled the Glenhurst Corporation and in that time much has changed. JOHN WILKINSON reports....
For those of us who have spent some of our working lives in engineering or manufacturing, the importance of quality is self-evident....
As if the threat of war isn’t enough to worry about, the financial services industry also has an unprecedented amount of new regulation to deal with. MAX FRANCHITTO argue...
The van Eyk Research group has filled the gap left by the departure of its former head of asset consulting, Rob Prugue, appointing John Peterson to the role. Peterson, fo...
Australian Planners Financial Services (APFS) will turn over $55 million this financial year through its nationwide network of 200 advisers in 90 member firms....
Risk insurance has long been a wallflower at the financial planning party. Hampered by the depressing reality that the client may not be around to spend the benefit, risk...
Nobody really thinks the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) is working, says TOM COLLINS, and for that reason it should be scrubbed....
A new Melbourne-based financial planning firm, DirEquity, expects to launch a direct managed accounts platform....
Forget PS 146, it could be PS 164 that will be the big compliance hurdle for financial planning businesses in 2003....
Portfolio administration service provider Symetry has restructured its operations to prepare for further business growth, which includes plans for greater platform and eq...
Hunter Hall Investment Management has been given a damning report card by Morningstar in the research house’s sector strength rating of the boutique manager....
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
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...