The Investment and Financial Services Association’s (IFSA) sponsorship of research by KPMG and Econotech that defines the value of financial advice was both necessary and...
Trustees should be free to make investment decisions without regulatory influences that create artificial markets for certain classes, writes Pauline Vamos....
Hit hard by the global financial crisis, the value of infrastructure in portfolios is being questioned by investors, writes Amal Awad....
Chris Bowen has announced that SMSFs will not be exempt from the changes stemming from the Henry and Cooper reviews....
A reluctance to commit to infrastructure investment may prompt the Federal Government to look to alternatives such as bonds to fund future projects....
Research commissioned by ASFA sends a strong warning to the Federal Government not to dip further into the superannuation pool, while also pointing to a lack of confidenc...
Australians using more cash in face of economic adversity....
Platforms and wraps have become such an integral part of the financial planning revenue equation that any changes to the regulatory environment are likely to be felt up a...
The chairman of the Federal Government inquiry into superannuation, Jeremy Cooper, has raised the prospect of the government operating a national super default fund....
The Federal Government has improved the death and invalidity benefits of the Military Superannuation and Benefits Scheme (MSBS)....
The Law Council of Australia is calling on the Federal Government to address judges’ pension laws, which it says has the potential to discriminate against the former spou...
The global financial crisis has dampened Australians’ ardour for lump sum superannuation payouts, with the result that a rash of new pension products are coming to market...
The Federal Government has taken the unusual step of activating the insurance compensation scheme used to handle claims against companies that become insolvent....
Will the policy tide turn against commissions? Michael Mathieson considers the future prospects for remuneration in the industry....
The Minister for Financial Services, Chris Bowen, has reinforced the Government's intention to establish Sydney as a regional financial services hub....
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....