<i>Money Management</i><i>’</i><i>s</i> ‘Rating the Raters’ survey featured in this edition began to generate a lot of interest even before the last words had been writte...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has responded to calls by financial planners to recognise pre-1995 training, announcing yesterday it would acc...
Bridges Financial Services has made two appointments to expand its business development team....
AMP is considering a make-over or even a sale for its investment administration business, Cogent....
Zurich Financial Services (ZFS) new range of multi-manager products has received an less than sterling debut rating from Assirt, and despite some strengths has been award...
Lonsdale Financial Group is looking to grow the number of accountancy practices in its framework and to launch software in the second half of this year to help automate t...
The financial planning industry has been called on to play its part in the international fight against terrorism....
The term retail means less now than what it did five years ago....
There is rumblings of a revolution in wholesale funds management, as the sector begins to build a path between itself and retail investors....
Paul Lahiff is a man with rollback on his mind, and it has nothing to do with the GST....
An open letter to: Directors of Institutional Financial Planning Groups;...
In the first week of January ASIC has banned one financial adviser for a year and another two investment advisers for life, reconfirming its commitment in 2002 to protect...
In all noise surrounding the Privacy Act last year, ASIC also released a policy paper outlining the definition of a financial market. Mike Taylor looks at how this will a...
Over the past 12 months the working lives of Australia’s financial planning fraternity has been given a good shakeup and for some, even been turned upside down. The bad n...
Another year, another clean slate? Not quite. Legislative overhang from 2001 is set to frame the trials and tribulations of the year ahead as the financial planning indus...
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...