The Financial Advice Association Australia has appointed a senior manager for policy and advocacy, a newly created role for the body as it ramps up its advocacy efforts....

With the demand for retirement advice set to skyrocket, a professor has highlighted the importance of advisers using a multidisciplinary approach when assisting retiree c...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has handed down the federal budget for 2025–26 with a focus on retaining stability and certainty for the financial services sector....

Wealth Architects chief executive Callum Mitchener details the firm’s expansion plans, following a majority stake taken by insurance distribution group Envest....

Self-licensing specialist My Dealer Services has teamed up with Colonial First State to deliver technical support to its network of over 400 self-licensed financial advis...

High-net-worth investors, who are “disenfranchised” with the traditional options available to them, are moving into the non-custodial solutions, with advisers citing clie...

While the measures in this year’s federal budget may seem minimal, MLC has broken down the “little pieces of gold” and client opportunities for financial advisers to maxi...

The Finance Sector Union has branded AMP’s confirmation that it will not use surveillance and monitoring on employees in their homes a “win” for the union....

Two financial advice businesses in the AZ NGA network have merged to form a multidisciplinary firm with some 20 advisers and 2,500 clients across two states....

As adviser numbers struggle to keep pace with growing demand, Ord Minnett and Morgan Stanley believe large wealth firms like themselves have a major role to play in attra...

Financial Services Minister, Stephen Jones, will keynote Momentum Media’s Election 2025 event....

Infocus has announced two appointments to its senior leadership team, just days after unveiling a new business model for the advice licensee....

A former chief executive of IOOF and managing director of Centrepoint Alliance has joined the board as chair of COG Financial, which previously made a bid to acquire advi...

BlackRock, in collaboration with iCapital and GeoWealth, has unveiled a model portfolio that delivers access to both private and public market assets in a single account,...

Only 11 per cent of financial advice practices have said they are including crypto products on their approved products lists, according to CoreData....

The financial advice industry has seen a net loss after 10 consecutive weeks of net growth in adviser numbers, according to Wealth Data....

Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has said it is not a “backdoor attempt” by the government to allow the new class of adviser to provide full advice....

In this week’s episode of Relative Return Unplugged, AMP’s chief economist, Shane Oliver, joins us to break down Labor’s budget, focusing on its re-election strategy and ...

With ASIC suing FIIG Securities for alleged failures in its cyber security measures earlier this month, two firms have urged AFSLs to stay vigilant against ongoing cyber ...

GQG’s former director of wholesale markets has taken up a new role leading private wealth at a global investment company....