The chairman of the parliamentary inquiry into the financial services industry believes that while the payment links between product providers, advisers and clients are ‘...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has set a new standard in the use of credit ratings, with agencies now required to sign off on the use of the ...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has lost numbers in both its principal and general membership bases over the past financial year....
ING has called for a major overhaul of longstanding components of superannuation in its submission to the Cooper Review, including changes to the existing trust/trustee s...
The former ipac chief’s appointment as an external director supports a focus on governance rather than product distribution, the group said....
Michael Back is leaving his position as head of wholesale risk at CommInsure to join Suncorp in a similar role....
Recent events have served to significantly undermine Australians’ confidence in super as a savings vehicle, and the industry has its work cut out to restore that faith....
New software is being introduced that will allow superannuation funds to take members right through to a draft Statement of Advice - all online and without needing to tal...
Three people who ran an investment advice business without being licensed have been given prison sentences, although all were fully suspended....
An Adelaide man has received a fully suspended six-month prison sentence for assisting the unlicensed Power Financial Planning to encourage clients into Westpoint investm...
Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....
A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...
Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....
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....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...