Study reveals Australian advisers are offering highly competitive products when compared to their overseas counterparts....

Can an improving United States offset the problems in Europe? Matt Sherwood writes....

For financial advisers, the need to be able to assess their clients’ risk is assuming far greater importance, according to Gabriel Carey....

Although financial planners are in for another tough year, the Financial Planning Association's Mark Rantall believes this could be a good time to reflect on how to creat...

The threat of a double-dip recession in the United States is gone, European debt is a long-term issue that is gradually being resolved, and a possible slowdown in Chinese...

The threat of a double-dip recession in the United States is gone, European debt is a long-term issue that is gradually being resolved, and a possible slowdown in Chinese...

MLC claims it is trying to improve strategic leadership skills among its financial adviser base by organising a study trip to the United States. ...

ASIC has used its submission to the PJC to point to the difficulty of dealing with miscreant financial planners who appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) ma...

Financial services technology provider GBST has announced the appointment of current Boeing Australia and South Pacific president Dr Ian Thomas as non-executive independe...

Australian financial planners and their clients have had to live with higher than normal levels of market volatility for much of the past three years as both a consequenc...

Australian investors seem certain to close out the year with their allocations set to conservative and with half an eye on a struggling Europe, but as Mike Taylor reports...

AMP financial planning executive Steve Helmich has been named the 2012 chairperson-elect of the Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB) Council - an advisory body of th...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has announced that MF Global Group has been placed into administration, affecting a number of companies in Aus...

Market volatility is changing the way financial advisers structure their clients' retirement income and the advice they are offering around it. Benjamin Levy reports on t...