DIRECTOR

Financial planning

The former Macquarie Bank staffer banned from practicing financial services last week for being late with disclosure documents had already been warned of his transgressio...

Financial planning

The managed funds industry finished off 2005 with weaker investment flows in the December quarter, according to the latest Standard & Poor’s Market Share Preliminary Find...

Editorial

Abstract Goes Here...

Financial planning

Asgard Wealth Solutions has lost another key figure from its distribution team with the departure of associate director of institutional business services Wes Gillett....

Financial planning

Agribusiness investment schemes have been gaining greater acceptance with financial planners in recent years. Money Management spoke to a number of advisers and dealer gr...

Financial planning

Retail investors can now put their nest eggs into fish tanks with listed property fund manager and subsidiary of the MFS group, MFS Living and Leisure, entering into a $1...

Financial planning

Most asset consultants add enough value to justify the fees they charge, according to the latest research on the sector published by actuarial firm, Rice Walker....

Superannuation

Financial advisers have embraced the growth in self-managed superannuation funds with recent research showing just under half of them, 46 per cent, see it as a significan...

Funds management

Style characteristics are playing a less influential role in performance as Australian share funds face a tough year ahead, a report rating the best funds in the sector h...

Financial planning

Australian Unity Investments has formed a joint venture with boutique manager Platypus Asset Management to offer Australian retail equity products....

Financial planning

Following the successful capital raising for Ray White Invest first retail property unit trust, the fund management division of the Ray White estate agency business inten...

Financial planning

In further proof that choice of fund was no more than a flash in the pan for advisers, a new survey has found just a third of the very few people who switched funds and s...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has, for the first time in its history, created a role of chief executive officer, and appointed Richard Klipin, ING’s former head o...

Financial planning

In recent times, we have seen a welcome emphasis on improving the understanding of what financial planners actually do. The Financial Planning Association’s Value of Advi...

Financial planning

Peter Kell is the face of the wave of consumerism that has washed over the financial planning industry...

sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 2 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

5 months 2 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months 2 weeks ago

The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

1 week 2 days ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

3 weeks 3 days ago

ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

2 weeks ago