The growth in the number of SMSFs in Australia may have been rapid but it is consistent with the overall growth of superannuation....
At the same time as ramping up its television advertising, the Industry Super Network has relied on its own chief economist to produce research questioning the returns de...
Asgard has announced the release of its Infinity eWRAP platform that will allow users to select and pay for only the particular features they want to use....
Non-aligned dealer group executives have long been warning that the new Future of Financial Advice reforms would lead to consolidation in the financial advice market. Geo...
Putting aside the increasingly open question of whether the Gillard Labor Government will remain in power long enough to oversee the implementation of its Future of Finan...
Superannuation funds should be subject to the same corporate governance requirements as publicly listed companies....
A significant proportion of industry fund members would be interested in further advice about their superannuation, even though less than one in five members surveyed cur...
Within days of the Government's expected release of its Stronger Super proposals it has been warned it risks creating an industry fund monopoly....
The use by Industry Super Network (ISN) of research and surveying organisations to help prosecute its agenda with respect to financial planning represents the transfer of...
Core elements of the financial planning industry are calling for greater regulatory scrutiny of the contractual arrangements underpinning the multimillion dollar group in...
The latest APRA data confirms the dominance of SMSFs in terms of assets held....
With the only winners from FOFA likely to be industry funds and the big end of town, the AFA has called on the Government to delay its implementation beyond 1 July, next ...
The superannuation industry has posted an overall rate of return of -0.9 per cent for the June 2011 quarter, following three successive quarters of positive returns, acco...
The Federal Government would be likely to garner grudging (but majority) financial planning industry support for its Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation if it w...
Institutional investors from a number of international pension funds have launched the principles for responsible investment in farmland....
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....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...