Financial planning dealer firm Mawson Group chief executive Les mace has been appointed to head up subsidiary life adviser dealer group Aurora Financial Planning, which k...
In any situation, humans have a natural tendency to take sides and look for someone, or something, to blame when we hear some alarming or bad news....
Baby boomers have always known how to go with the flow. And now their unique history, needs and desires are shaping how they approach retirement. Liam Egan reports....
Defaulting investors in agribusiness managed investment group Palandri are set to lose their units as the company commences proceedings against them....
The average Australian household now spends 2.3 per cent more each week than it receives in income, according to the latest AMP/Natsem Income and Wealth Report....
Macquarie has joined a limited number of platform providers that are rebating fund manager volume discounts back to clients....
Recent ‘Point of View’ comments on the future of ‘networks’ by Ray Miles and Paul Brown (MM September 9, August 26) raise some interesting challenges and concerns for ins...
So you thought platforms were a steady business? Not on your life. It has been a year of movers and shakers, writes Ross Kelly....
The departing chair of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has sent a strong signal to the association’s members that it is planning to stay on course with reforms t...
Financial planners have taken a lot of criticism recently from some who say we are not moving quickly enough to embrace change....
A trio of superannuation funds totalling collective assets of nearly $700 million and more than 13,000 members today announced their decisions to outsource the operation ...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has warned that it may ramp up its surveillance of financial planning groups to coincide with tough new regulations o...
Bendigo Investment Services has restructured its financial planning division by abandoning the traditional adviser reporting lines through state managers in favour of cre...
A new survey has reinforced superannuation fund member apathy towards choice of fund with findings that only one in 10 people are likely to switch funds when the new regi...
ING Australia has created four new business units and restructured its executive line-up as part of a strategy to better capitalise on its major distribution channels....
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...