Paul Resnik believes it is all too easy for planners to focus on investment choice rather than investment outcomes....
Hub provider InvestmentLink will now offer consolidated data for 13 platforms and fund managers via its e-Portfolio Transaction Service after the addition of the recently...
If the National Australia Bank is ultimately successful in nabbing AMP, it will unbalance the pillars of power says, Graham Rich....
Over the past year, the Tower group has redirected its overall strategy and returned its focus to the risk end of the market. Lucie Beaman looks at what this means for th...
Australian fund managers and platform providers are moving ahead in leaps and bounds with significant enhancements to their online service offerings in the last 12 months...
The Macquarie Group has stamped its name on this year’s Assirt service level awards, taking out top place in both the funds management and platform categories after comin...
Software provider Investment Data Technologies (IDT) has moved to integrate its adviser systems with popular wrap and master trust platforms to give planners seamless acc...
Online platform provider Netwealth has appointed JDV as its in-house broker platform for their wrap and superannuation products, following the announcement that the manag...
Wrap provider Praemium Portfolio Services has signed up another four groups to its service - bringing its total number of client adviser users to over 400....
In the current financial planning industry, Paul Resnik argues that everyone is unhappy. But don’t worry – he has some solutions....
It has been an eventful year for Garrisons, with a change in the structure of the parent company being the most significant. John Wilkinson reports....
Fiducian Portfolio Services has re-affirmed its intent of offering its funds and investment services to the external adviser market and has now received strong interest f...
Macquarie Bank and the US-based Developers Diversified Realty Corporation (DDR) are seeking A$550 million from investors, in the largest Australian property capital raisi...
Challenger Financial Services is investigating a move back into the platform market after the appointment of David Coyne as head of platform development....
The CARM group has struck a deal to integrate its goals-based financial planning software with hub provider InvestmentLink’s e-Portfolio service to provide a new complian...
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...