New guidelines around the payment of product-directed commissions to financial planners is the most significant, but not the only, recommendation in a charter that aims t...
The Investment and Financial Services Association has confirmed its members will create a clear divide between product and financial advice costs from next year....
A push is underway to extend premium tax deductibility within superannuation to critical illness insurance. SEAN MCCORMACK outlines the positives such a move would genera...
Former Colonial First State Investment Management chief appointed UniSuper chief investment officer....
Measure provides certainty to international investors that they will not be taxed on capital gains arising out of most passive investments made by Australian managed fund...
The response to Wayne Swan's 2009 Federal Budget has been mixed, with various financial services bodies choosing to view the super changes in different lights, ranging fr...
Getting a client's sum insured right can be the difference between gaining a client and losing one, writes GERARD KERR....
Average payout for the death of a partner will not protect families from financial problems....
Scheme would open opportunities for Australian managed investment schemes to be offered overseas....
Contrary to popular opinion, environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations are not niche investment philosophies....
Richard Gilbert has announced he will be retiring from the Investment and Financial Services Association effective from the end of September....
The Investment and Financial Services Association has urged the Federal Government to steer clear of radical change to the retirement savings system and instead embrace s...
Over half of investors say they are unlikely to increase investments in existing products over the next quarter, while around a third are likely to invest more....
IFSA talking to community groups outside of the industry to gather grassroots support from consumers and raise awareness....
The Insurance Council of Australia may have estimated the total insurance bill from February’s Victorian bushfires to exceed $1 billion but, thus far, the resultant...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....