Mike Taylor looks at the ACCC's report on NAB's and AMP's bids for AXA Asia Pacific, as well as industry consolidation in general....
Some industry representatives have expressed concerns that the Self-Managed Superannuation Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) is not having a real impact...
ASIC cancels the AFSL of a company that stopped answering the phone and filing reports....
Professionalism in the SMSF industry has improved greatly, but the ATO must remain firm with the sector, said Tax Commissioner Michael D'Ascenzo....
The Association of Independently-Owned Financial Planners (AIOFP) is lobbying key regulatory and administrative stakeholders over the management of now defunct fund manag...
Former Moodys staffer charged over insider trading....
The Federal Court of Australia in Melbourne has ordered that Pacific Blue Securities be wound up and limitations placed on its sole director, Sean Fogarty, pending furthe...
Professional Investment Services is recruiting for a number of people to fill key compliance, research and product development functions within its head office....
With the global financial crisis driving smaller lenders and mortgage brokers out of the market, Chris Kennedy finds the mortgage market is headed for a transitional year...
The Productivity Commission has recommended the corporate regulator take a greater role in the oversight of the not-for-profit sector....
ASIC has been called on to be more transparent about the purpose of its current comprehensive audit of Australian Financial Services Licensees (AFSLs)....
The power to supervise domestic Australian market licensees will be handed over to ASIC today....
Litigation funding group IMF has been granted a licence by ASIC that will enable it to fund class actions and multiparty group actions throughout Australia....
Mortgage brokers will increasingly look to join with financial planners as their industries converge....
The Government’s bank guarantee, introduced at the height of the crisis, will be withdrawn at the end March....
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,...