The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is to take a practical approach to regulating the new licensing and disclosure regime under the Financial Serv...
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Ross Cameron has written to the chief executives of both the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (AFSA) and the...
An industry working party into soft dollar payments has called for the removal of a number of common forms of inducements in its recommendations announced today....
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has today taken action in two areas of considerable regulatory focus of late - early release super schemes and...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released a timetable for policy proposal papers on the Corporate Law Economic Reform Program (Audit Reform...
AMP Financial Services (AMPFS) - having survived a tumultuous year in 2003 - is well positioned to take advantage of an anticipated turnaround in fortune this year accord...
The Federal Opposition is claiming a key victory on dollar disclosure within the new Financial Services Reform regime, following the passage last week of amendments to th...
The chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, Senator Grant Chapman, has indicated it may re-examine the issue of risk product di...
The Federal Government has used the last sitting day of Parliament this year to introduce legislation backing the latest iteration of the Corporate Law Economic Reform Pr...
Aurora Funds Management has struck a distribution deal with van Eyk Research and White Funds Management (WFM) less than three weeks after launching Aurora Distribution – ...
Australia’s largest ethical investment manager, Hunter Hall Investment Management is set to lose its chief investment officer to a large institution and potentially impac...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has voiced opposition to Labor’s proposed ban on commissions for superannuation guarantee contributions, arguing this would make ...
When it comes to claims, the most cases assessed relate to disability income, and as Mike Taylor reports, it is an increasing trend....
Financial planning dealer group Associated Planners Financial Services (APFS) announced today, in what will be an industry first, its intentions to turn its back on soft ...
The Labor Party has launched its superannuation policy revealing a number of new steps but has not departed from its core positions of investment choice for all members a...
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,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...