FMA chief executive Sean Hughes tells advisers who should be run out of town; acknowledges the Cowboy ads ruffled feathers and issues a challenge to advisers.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has laid 11 charges under the Crimes Act against two current and one former director of Capital + Merchant Finance Limited (C+M).

TOWER Investments has made two new key staff appointments sourced from internal recruitment.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services had placed its ‘BB' long-term issuer credit rating on New Zealand-based Credit Union North on CreditWatch with negative implications. At the same time, we have affirmed the short-term rating of ‘B'.

Harbour Asset Management has published its market commentary for July outlining its investment strategy.

Morningstar Australasia has appointed Nigel Crampton to the role of head of sales, reporting to Morningstar Australasia chief executive Anthony Serhan.

Former Nathans Finance director Roger Moses has resigned his life membership of the Institute of Financial Advisers (IFA).

In our continuing series looking at how interest rates work, Rodney Dickens responds to comments from a number of economists who criticised his approach to help keep rates stable.

Nathans verdict a clear signal it's safer to enter the markets; Stevens lurking in the background: Judge says; Insuring the insurers; Latest Harbour Asset Management commentary.

VTL Group chairman Gary Stevens wasn't a director of Nathans Finance but “his shadowy figure was lurking in the background when many significant decisions affecting Nathans‘ business interests were made,” Justice Paul Heath of the High Court said last week.

After a marathon 12 week trial former Nathans directors Mervyn Doolan, Donald Young and Roger Moses have been found guilty of five charges of breaching the Securities Act.

Liontamer has released its latest capital protected fund, the seventh one of its type created by the fund manager to target the commodities sector.