Private equity managers are casting a wider net to attract advisers and retail investors. John Wilkinson looks at a new fund from ING....
The results of the Hare and Tortoise report highlight the “dangers” of the industry using simple compound or point to point returns as a performance measurement tool, acc...
The Association of Financial Advisers has a new president with Robin Yates this morning relinquishing the key role to former vice president Michael Murphy at the associat...
Gambling and the growing misuse of online banking have been identified as the major drivers of corporate fraud in Australia, according to KPMG....
The second annual Rate the Risk Raters survey reinforces the growing role of risk researchers, but not everyone is happy. LIAM EGAN reports....
Telephone investment frauds are reaching epidemic proportions with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission reporting a sharp rise in the number of complaints...
The number of financial planners prepared to use three or more master trust or wrap platforms has more than doubled over the last year - and it could be a newer class of ...
Describing another week in her practice, Jennifer Moss says recent rule changes to retirement savings are causing people to lose faith in the super system....
It’s been another busy week for financial planner Jennifer Moss. If it’s not new legislation to deal with, it’s clients confusing you with the Yellow Pages, she writes in...
Existing clients are often the best source of future leads. The challenge for Simone Vanden-Driesen and Leishman Financial Services was to tap the source....
Equity markets are firing, clients are safe in the knowledge that the financial services industry is now governed by one of the world’s most rigorous consumer protection ...
Financial services education provider Tribeca Learning has recruited high profile former Deutsche Bank chief economist Don Stammer to chair its board....
Van Eyk has moved to deflect attention from a spate of recent departures to competing research group, Mercer Investment Consulting, by announcing a new head of distributi...
Melbourne-based financial planning firm Halifax Partners has sold its client-base to a risk advice group operating under Perth dealer firm, Wealthsure, after the Australi...
A collection of firms and individuals promoting the trading of options with claims of returns of “60 to 180 per cent” and that investors attending seminars would find it ...
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...