Select advisory panel to assist in validating the investment committee's ideas or providing views contrary to its own....
Some financial planning practices looking for acquisitions are beginning to question the value of purchasing a practice with a retired client base....
Longstanding projections that an ageing demographic would result in many financial advisers leaving the industry in droves are premature, according to Chris Wrightson, di...
AIMS Funds Management director and former Pengana Capital director and founder Mark Thorpe-Apps has been appointed as an executive director of listed property group Macar...
ASFA has issued a paper to provide superannuation trustees with guidance on valuation and liquidity issues associated with unlisted investments....
The Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners has appointed the University of Adelaide as its third party assessor for continuing education points accruing to...
The product, designed for the self-managed super funds market, will be known as SMSF Invest....
Voluntary contributions to super have all but dried up in the face of the Federal Government's May Budget and announcements from the interim Henry Report, according to th...
Netwealth has declared its interest in picking up planners unhappy about NAB's acquisition of the Navigator platform....
A combined Melbourne-based risk insurance and accounting business plans to buy more practices to boost its presence in Victoria and New South Wales....
Former Challenger Financial Services Group chief executive Chris Cuffe has been appointed to the board of directors of dealer group Centric Wealth....
Some researchers have expressed concern over a request from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission that planners send samples of product research used to fo...
The Royal Bank of Scotland has appointed David Goffage as head of equity capital markets Australia, replacing Patrick Broughton, who is relocating to London to take up th...
Dealer groups dissatisfied with financial planning software are creating their own or purchasing programs from practices marketing their own internally used software....
Rebate services provider YourShare has said many financial planners are holding themselves out to be purely fee for service when in fact they are charging commissions as ...
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...