More work on retirement income policy is needed if the living standard expectations by the next generation of retirees are to be met, according to a major policy statemen...
NSW-based financial planners will avoid the added burden of payroll tax due to an ‘imminent’ ruling by the NSW Office of State Revenue (OSR) that will recognise planners ...
Australian fund managers are confident this financial year will prove more fruitful than 2002/03 despite the failure of estimates made this time last year to materialise....
The financial services sector has broadly welcomed today’s release by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) of a modelling template for fee disclosur...
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) will call for a standardised fee disclosure template for financial products and services on Tuesday when it rel...
The Federal Treasurer Peter Costello is considering lobbying New Zealand ministers over problems Australian fund managers are having across the Tasman....
Accountants have been cut out from providing even non-specific advice on superannuation products after revisions to the Financial Services Reform regulation adding more f...
Count Financial has weighed in on heated industry debate over whether accountants should be able to provide advice on superannuation fund structures without an Australian...
The financial services industry has delivered a mixed response to the Federal Budget, with one association lambasting the Government for “walking away” from Australia’s r...
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has confirmed an exclusive report from Money Management over a week ago that the SuperEC and MFundEC electroni...
The assets of worldwide managed funds have experienced a flat 2003 first quarter, with net assets declining marginally from their level at the end of 2002 by 0.06 per cen...
The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has backed the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) recent comments in defending the Financial Services Reform ...
Colonial First State (CFS) chief executive John Pearce became the latest addition to the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) board of directors after bei...
Levies on financial services institutions will rise almost $10 million to $84.8 million in 2003/04, with the superannuation, insurance and authorised deposit taking insti...
A "plain English" guide on the Statement of Advice (SOA) and a model Financial Services Guide (FSG) have been released by a consortium of industry groups to assist member...
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...