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Funds management

The Australian funds management industry is continuing to experience good growth, but fund managers are going to have to do more to win the trust of investors, according ...

Financial planning

Despite recent criticism by the corporate regulator, financial planners have won a major concession that will allow them to recommend clients change super funds, even if ...

Financial planning

The financial services industry has an important role to play in strengthening Australia’s national security, according to Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty....

Editorial

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Life/Risk

The life insurance sector has contributed to the underinsurance of Australians by over-engineering products so that they are poorly understood by customers, according to ...

Financial planning

Fund managers will find it increasingly difficult to generate returns for their investors, and larger, more established managers are likely to be the ones struggling to p...

Life/Risk

Only four per cent of Australian parents have enough life insurance cover to sustain their family’s lifestyle if either parent were to die, with 60 per cent - or 5.4 mill...

Financial planning

The abolition of the superannuation surcharge for higher income earners is likely to lead to the demise of personal contributions to superannuation funds in favour of sal...

Financial planning

The weight of industry opinion appears to fall on the side of a fee-for-service as a method of adviser remuneration under choice, although some suggest the case has not y...

Financial planning

Many investors will remain ignorant of the soft-dollar payments received by advisers under the new industry Code of Practice for their disclosure, according to the Austra...

Editorial

The Association of Superannuation Funds Australia remains the dominant organisation in the superannuation industry....

Financial planning

Differences in disclosure documents between major superannuation providers currently permitted by regulators and industry associations are making it too hard for investor...

Superannuation

The Investment and Financial Services Association has released a fact sheet on self-managed super funds, the 30th fact sheet to be released in its online Getting the Edge...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

3 weeks ago

increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...

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Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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