The Financial Planning Association has welcomed last night’s Federal Budget, but cautioned that using ASIC’s industry funding model to pay for implementing Royal Commissi...
The use of the term ‘general advice’ may finally be ending after a finding by ASIC that the division between personal and general advice confused consumers, according to ...
The Net Promoter Score for the Big Four is sitting at minus 1.6 for the six months to this February, significantly below the latest rating of 23.2 for banks outside of th...
Ahead of tomorrow night’s Federal Budget, a leading financial advisory firm has warned that both economic and political uncertainty could have long-term impacts on retire...
MLC Super’s MySuper members have been moved to a new default option, as the fund implements major changes to make their MySuper offering better reflect members’ needs at ...
Many consumers are worryingly unaware of the distinction between general and personal advice, with 47 per cent of Australians incorrectly identifying general advice....
With consumers showing apathy toward swapping out of MySuper options, it’s worth considering whether their returns actually suffer much harm from staying put in the defau...
Despite investor confidence increasing fractionally globally in March, confidence has plummeted in Europe as the continent faces continued political uncertainty until at ...
Despite the strong policy emphasis currently on superannuation account consolidation, research by Vanguard has found that very few members rollover their funds into eithe...
Some industry super funds are investors of a major arms company trading with Saudi Arabia, and consumers say they’re willing to switch funds as a result....
Insignia Financial has confirmed it is considering a preliminary non-binding proposal received from a US private equity giant to acquire the firm. ...
Six of the seven listed financial advice licensees have reported positive share price growth in 2024, with AMP and Insignia successfully reversing earlier losses. ...
Specialist wealth platform provider Mason Stevens has become the latest target of an acquisition as it enters a binding agreement with a leading Sydney-based private equi...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....