For my last article, I normally summarise my previous articles for the year. However this time I want to only do that in part. That’s because this year was the last year ...

Financial services group Fiducian has gone live with its own internally developed administration system in what the group is calling one of the most significant achieveme...

Over the past five years, the acquisition by banks and insurance companies of independent financial planning groups has become common market activity. These acquisitions ...

Growing interest in investing has also called attention to some less than professional practices. Tom Collins argues that in the public’s eye planner renumeration may fal...

Boutique funds management group Investors Mutual will launch two new funds before the end of the year as part of an expansion plan according to managing director Anton Ta...

I set off on my recent trip to the UK smug in the belief that I’d be able to teach the Poms a thing or two, as our industry, as we keep telling each other, is so far ahe...

Small dealer groups will be the fastest-growing sector of financial planning in the next five years, says industry commentator Tom Collins....

Wraps and master trusts have almost become commoditised, but TOM COLLINS says they should adopt new methods to offer better value to advisers and clients....

The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) intends to proceed with a plan to develop a transactional processing service for unlisted managed funds....

Small dealer groups will be the fastest-growing sector of financial planning in the next five years, says industry commentator Tom Collins....

Garrisons financial planning group is the third major advisory group to sign up to deliver InvestorWeb’s VisiPlan software....

As consumer interest and demand for financial advice widens demographically the industry could move to a tiered advice structure, Fidelity Investments vice chairman Rober...

InvestorWeb has cut a deal with the AMP-owned financial planning business Hillross Financial Services to roll out the VisiPlan software to more than 70 Hillross sites....

Two years ago, the funds management back office outsourcing market was dominated by BT Portfolio Services and Perpetual Fund Services. Perpetual’s move to sell off its ou...