Australian super funds, asset managers and insurance companies are keeping up with trends set up by their Asia and northern hemisphere colleagues, increasing their use in...
Principals of the newly launched Self-Managed Super Funds (SMSF) Academy have flagged plans to enter the RG146 space in the near future, depending on the changes flowing ...
Research house Standard and Poor's Fund Services (S&P) has given an 'on hold' rating to the Perpetual Wholesale Concentrated Equity Fund, following the announcement that ...
As a result of product reviews and adviser feedback, Macquarie Life has announced a range of updates to its FutureWise and Macquarie Life Active products....
More than 170 members of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) will be offering free online financial advice for the next six weeks in the hope of promoting the profes...
National Australia Bank (NAB)-owned wealth manager, JBWere, has appointed Mark Joiner as its new chairman, after Michael Ullmer announced he was stepping down....
Platform provider HUB24 has restructured its investment service in response to the Government's proposed Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms, becoming another playe...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has indicated it will open discussions with Treasury about whether some platforms should be regarded as pure administration tools...
The Federal Opposition will be well placed to block the Government's proposed Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms passing through the Parliament next year, accordin...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has called on the Federal Government to reconsider its proposed ban on life insurance commissions within superannuation, saying i...
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,...