Intra-fund advice should be included in the opt-in debate due to a lack of transparency regarding the way industry super funds finance it, according to Association of Fin...
National Australia Bank has announced that its deputy chief executive, Michael Ullmer, and the UK chief executive, Lynne Peacock, will be stepping down later this year....
Since their inception, the eight Platinum international funds have exceeded their respective indexes by a staggering 10 per cent per annum. Robert Keavney explores the cu...
National Australia Bank’s (NAB’s) direct asset management business, nabInvest, has acquired 35 per cent stake in AREA Property Partners – a real estate fund manager based...
After spending less then a year at Colonial First State (CFS), Marianne Perkovic has succeeded Paul Barrett as the new general manager of the CFS advice business....
Platform provider Praemium has launched its self-managed super fund (SMSF) offering, Smart Wrap SMSF, which the company said would engage, rather than create competition,...
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has appointed a new director of government relations and strategy, with Gordon Noble poised to take on the rol...
Minority shareholders of AXA Asia Pacific have given the green light to the proposed merger with AMP yesterday, with the acquisition remaining subject to one more approva...
Different opinions have emerged about whether advice around equity release products such as reverse mortgages should come from financial advisers or mortgage brokers....
Despite evidence showing increasing consumer demand for Internet and phone-based simple financial advice outside of super, the industry seems to be moving at a snail’s pa...
Super fund members are reluctant to take up financial advice due to lack of knowledge in what the offering entails and the cost involved, according to research by Profess...
The former co-founder and managing director of OnePath-owned Oasis Asset Management, Wayne Lowe, has taken on a new role as chief executive officer of PSI Group....
A new generation investment platform owned by Investorfirst, HUB24, has added 13 new non-unitised portfolios to its menu....
The SMSF Professionals’ Association of Australia (SPAA) has confirmed its national conference in Brisbane will go ahead as planned in five weeks time, despite conce...
ANZ-owned asset manager OnePath has introduced FundSource as its new fund reporting system, which has cut the collection of performance data for 300 funds from six weeks ...
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,...