Melbourne-based accounting and planning group Webb Financial Services is to become part of the William Buck Financial Services national advice network, following a merger...
Dealer Group Australian Financial Services has confirmed it is in negotiations to acquire two small dealer groups in the wake of its failed bid to merge with Total Financ...
Integrated Legal Holdings' strategy to expand its core member firms into major businesses takes shape....
The Insurance Council of Australia may have estimated the total insurance bill from February’s Victorian bushfires to exceed $1 billion but, thus far, the resultant...
Taxation expert warns planners about conflicts of interest implications if they are involved in transferring retirement funds from overseas into products that generate co...
MICHAEL HUTTON considers options for retiring SMSF trustees....
Macquarie Private Wealth has become the biggest shareholder in WHK Group, which will use $30 million of convertible notes issued to Macquarie to pay down its debt facilit...
Speculation is rife that Cameron Clyne’s strategy briefing this Thursday will include job cuts across the bank, but the FSU’s Rod Masson believes profitable c...
Advisers must use the global financial crisis as a chance to educate Australians about a healthy super balance at their retirement and encourage them to take an active in...
Large institutional dealer groups are putting more onerous conditions on adviser transfer agreements....
More than 60 'expressions of interest' received....
Simon Rothery joins Stephen Fitzgerald in leading the company....
Chairman Jack Ritch announces retirement....
Boutique planner groups say advisers must provide reasonable basis for recommending gearing amid calls for the regulator to act....
'Derogatory' director credit events up 33 per cent....
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...