BBL Funds Management claims its new Director Dow Jones Global Titans Index Fund will provide Australian investors with the opportunity to invest in the world’s top 50 com...

Australian Financial Services (AFS) is claiming a first for a dealer group, by set-ting up an initiative aimed at filling the gap between a planner’s technical prowess an...

The Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) complaints resolution scheme will be rolled into the operations of its only competitor under a deal announced late yes-terday....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has claimed a first scalp in its war against unregistered insurance brokers....

Rothschild Australia Asset Management (RAAM) will hand over more than $800 million of its international equity investments to US manager Putnam Investments early next yea...

The Vanguard Group’s 500 Index Fund has become the second managed fund to reach the US $100 billion mark in assets under management, according to Bloomberg....

Macquarie’s financial planning boss Robyn FitzRoy has ruled out acquiring finan-cial planning dealer groups to bolster its adviser numbers....

A group of financial planning dealers have banded together to provide financial advice targeting government institutions and large corporations in the process of downsizi...

Australian fund managers are weighted down with product, increasing manage-ment costs and making them vulnerable to overseas competitors entering the mar-ket, says one an...

NRMA Financial Services’ planners will be one of the key distributors of superan-nuation services aimed specifically at small to medium business groups (SMEs)....