The Financial Services Council has dismissed ISN research disparaging retail superannuation funds as flawed and misleading....
Centuria Property Funds has seen a pickup in enquiries from financial planners over the past four months as an increase in volatility sends investors back to unlisted pro...
An equity release industry body has praised the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services Bill Shorten's consultative approach before introducing changes to...
SMSF specialists regard the proposed ban on off-market transfers as a bad element of Stronger Super....
While the majority of self managed superannuation fund (SMSF) professionals believe the proposed Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) changes will improve the standard of fi...
Choice’s view that the quality of financial advice in Australia is "among the worst" is not the fault of financial planners but the industry as a whole, according to Omni...
The Government’s Stronger Super package has generated a mixed response from the industry....
Suncorp Life has appointed Sean Carroll as its new executive general manager for life risk in Australia - he will move from the same position he held in New Zealand....
A significant proportion of industry fund members would be interested in further advice about their superannuation, even though less than one in five members surveyed cur...
Former Trio director Keith Finkelde has entered into an enforceable undertaking with APRA that will see him barred from acting as the trustee of an APRA-regulated super e...
The gap between the Newstart allowance and the age pension is rapidly increasing, placing Australians who are at the bottom of the ladder in serious financial stress, acc...
Hastings Funds Management appoints former Sensis boss, Andrew Day, as new CEO....
If the accountant's exemption is removed when the second tranche of draft Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation is released shortly, it will have positive implica...
Within days of the Government's expected release of its Stronger Super proposals it has been warned it risks creating an industry fund monopoly....
First State Super has denied reports death and disability insurance arrangements were inappropriate or uncompetitive....
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
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....