No platform provider is now without the ‘baby’ or ‘lite’ version of the full service wrap. In most cases, these ‘lite’ platforms have attracted substantial inflows withou...

The FPA has welcomed a reported increase in the number of breach of licence notifications received by the corporate regulator from the financial services industry....

Australian Agribusiness Group (AAG) has produced the first set of ratings evaluating the top managers of agribusiness managed investment schemes....

The FPA is confident the industry will overcome conditions that led to a ‘statements of advice’ failure in the ASIC’s 2006 ‘shadow shopper’ survey on superannuation advic...

Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Jeffrey Lucy has defended the regulator’s enforcement of financial services laws after its shadow shoppin...

The latest AMP Capital/Investment Trends SMSF Investor Report has revealed compliance is now clearly the number one challenge being faced by people running their own supe...

BT Financial Group has become the latest entrant into the self-managed superannuation administration market, launching a service to administer SMSF funds and small Austra...

The Financial Planning Association’s new conflicts of interest principles do not go far enough to ensure compliant advice, according to Australian Securities and Investme...

Most superannuation product providers have recently issued deficient product disclosure statements, the corporate regulator has discovered....

Mariner Financial has moved to boost sales of its equity release product by entering a strategic deal with three dealer groups to offer the products to clients, and launc...

Investors in Glebe Asset Management will have their funds paid out to them after the ethical investment manager, which put itself up for sale last October, failed to find...

Another desktop advisory software provider has entered the financial planning arena after signing a contract with a mid-sized, Sydney-based independent dealer group to he...

Australia’s biggest dealer group, AMP Financial Planning, has endorsed the Financial Planning Association’s principles on conflicts of interest by forming a taskforce to ...

Year-end tax planning is important for individuals and businesses at all levels. Apart from the traditional approach - that is deferring income and advancing deductions w...