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...
Ausmaq’s development of its spoke-and-hub solution for IFSA’s MfundEC standard will not happen unless it wins support from more than 50 per cent of the financial services...
SuperEC, the e-commerce initiative to establish a common set of standards for the electronic processing of superannuation related information across fund managers and sup...
AMP Financial Services managing director Andrew Mohl has been re-elected to his second term as chairman of the board of directors for the Investment and Financial Service...
The Howard Government has been urged to reconsider the state of retirement savings after being returned for a third term in office at the weekend’s election....
It is with anticipation and some trepidation that the financial services industry greets the upcoming election as both parties have pushed superannuation onto the electio...
Fund Managers are caught in relationship crossfire. The demand for greater performance and transparency is gathering momentum. Consumers and key players in the food chain...
AMP and Macquarie have suspended business within certain unit trusts amid warnings from the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) to investors that a numbe...
The retail financial services industry has the opportunity to implement technology which will make it the envy of the financial services world. But, Tom Collins reckons t...
Fees for retail managed investment products dropped by six per cent in the five year period from 1996 to 2000, a report released by the Investment and Financial Services ...
The asset management industry needs to commit significant time and resources to innovative product research and development in the future, to keep pace with growing consu...
Fund managers should take a bigger role in social issues facing Australia, according to Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) chief executive Lynn Ralph....
The funds management industry needs an overhaul of small, inactive and low performing products to improve efficiency and customer service, according to two key research f...
As consumer interest and demand for financial advice widens demographically the industry could move to a tiered advice structure, Fidelity Investments vice chairman Rober...
Delays in the release of regulations around the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) is hampering efforts to implement the new regime by the October 1 start date....
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...