The Commonwealth Bank has again been forced to make amends to customers, this time setting aside $16 million for refunds for personal and home loan protection products....
The Financial Planning Association’s National Roadshow will focus educating and calming financial planners regarding the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’...
Staggered annuitisations can help support retirees through to maximum probable life expectancy, and planners are showing increased interest in them as a retirement soluti...
The SMSF Association has praised former KPMG partner, Dana Fleming’s appointment as Australian Taxation Office Assistant Commissioner, self-managed superannuation funds, ...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has permanently banned a financial planner, Muneer Mahmood Khan, for not being of good fame and character and acting ...
Sophisticated or wholesale investors looking to invest together through one legal entity should consider using a bare trust, the Fold Legal has recommended....
State Street Global Advisors has announced that James MacNevin would become head of its Asia Pacific business, effective immediately, replacing Lochiel Crafter....
Liberal Party stalwart and former party cabinet member, Helen Coonan, has been appointed by the Turnbull Government to be the inaugural chair of the Australian Financial ...
Chartered accountant Wayne Wanders has hit out at Industry Super Australia over its claim that self-managed superannuation funds return significantly less than their indu...
Magellan chief executive and chief investment officer, Hamish Douglass, has cautioned investors that the US fiscal stimulus package could lead to the highest stock market...
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....