FINANCIAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION

Financial planning

Shadow Minister for Retirement Incomes and Savings Senator Nick Sherry told today’s Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) conference that a Labor governmen...

Editorial

Australia’s funds management community is in the midst of a dramatic slump in profits and revenue, the latest annual Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) ...

Financial planning

THE FEDERAL opposition has made a last minute bid to block parts of the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) in an attempt to modify crucial new disclosure requirements f...

Financial planning

The highly competitive race to become the pre-eminent provider of straight through processing services to the Australian managed fund market came to a head last week, wit...

Financial planning

The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) chief executive officer Lynn Ralph has handed in her resignation after four and a half years, with current deputy...

Financial planning

The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has issued the Government with a stern warning that any reluctance to reform Australia’s retirement incomes syste...

Financial planning

The proposed merger between the Australian Retirement Incomes Streams Association (ARISA) and the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) will go ahead after...

Financial planning

The Investment & Financial Services Association (IFSA) has restructured its marketing and administration division, appointing marketing and communications senior manager ...

Financial planning

The Australian Retirement Incomes Streams Association (ARISA) and the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) have announced an in-principle agreement to mer...

Financial planning

Fees in retail superannuation funds continue to be almost double that of other sectors of the superannuation industry despite remaining static since 1999, according to a ...

Financial planning

Fierce competition has developed between players seeking to launch the first product that incorporates the standards of the Investments and Financial Services Association...

Financial planning

The term retail means less now than what it did five years ago....

Financial planning

Is this the new minister for financial services? Not quite, but senator Helen Coonan, appointed minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer after the Prime Minister scra...

Financial planning

The Prime Minister, John Howard, has decided to scrap the financial services and regulation portfolio from his new government in a reshuffle of his front bench ministry a...

Superannuation

Superannuation is not the sole answer to the issues surrounding Australia’s retirement incomes policy according to ING Financial Planning’s technical strategy manager Lou...

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