Managed Accounts Holdings has moved to acquire Linear Financial Holdings in key transaction aimed at delivering scale and growth....

ASIC has permanently banned John Dimitropoulos from financial services in connection with property and SMSF spruiking....

Was the life insurance industry ever really guilty of 'excessive' churn or was churn a means to a politically-motivated end? ...

Money Management's TOP 100 Financial Planning Groups survey has found financial planner numbers have dropped against the backdrop of increased educational requirements an...

University of Wollongong academics Shantha P Yahanpath and Shan P Yahanpath argue that there is a better way for financial planners to approach wealth management....

Minh Ly looks at modelling strategies to help advisers help clients understand how likely a desired spending level can be sustained during retirement....

A new whitepaper has outlined an integral role for life/risk advisers in an increasingly digital age with insurers placing them in the online mix....

Commonwealth Bank group executive, Wealth Management, Annabel Spring will exit the business in December....

The Federal Opposition has said it will veto the appointment of former banker, John O’Sullivan, if he is nominated as the new chairman of the Australian Securities and In...

A senior parliamentarian has quizzed the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on whether insurers have simply converted the payment of shelf space fees to ‘tr...

The ISWG’s draft Life Insurance in Superannuation Code of Practice requires any opt out or cessation arrangements to be straightforward and transparent. ...

The Victims of Financial Fraud has likened the recent bank money laundering investigations to the Trio Capital scheme, arguing admission of weaknesses in the law meant it...

ASFA has found that while receiving an insurance payout is not a rare event under insurance costs the government more than $1 billion annually....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has outlined to a Parliamentary Committee what it thinks life/risk advisers actually earn via the statement of advice...