With Baby Boomers starting to enter retirement, there is a growing realisation that retirement incomes products are insufficient and in need of an overhaul....
According to DEXX&R research, allocated pensions are still the most popular retirement incomes option....
Financial advisers are increasingly moving away from "one-dimensional" risk profiling to an objective-based plan, according to Challenger....
The Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan and the Treasury must shelve any plans they may have to alter the superannuation tax regime to achieve a Budget surplus, warns Mike Taylo...
Suncorp Life has moved to provide customers with a new tool via the launch this week of an online simulator that delivers a retirement snapshot in under 60 seconds....
MLC has launched a new insurance product aimed at helping Australians protect their retirement savings from ongoing volatility in equity markets....
Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association warns Government against further superannuation tinkering to bolster its promised Budget surplus....
Sonnie Bailey explores some of the sources of regulation which extend beyond what financial planners may think of as ‘regulation’, in the narrow sense of the term....
ASFA has called for the implementation of the SRM despite concerns about the measure from some industry players....
WHK Group has posted a net profit after tax of $10.2 million for the 2011-12 financial year - down from $17.8 in the previous financial year....
Morningstar has launched fund analyst research on Australian industry superannuation funds, which it said would provide an independent insight into this sector....
Post-retirement requires that Australian superannuation funds look to objective-based strategies that can protect members from future market volatility, according to Stan...
Fledgling financial planning software developers may be able to utilise an advertising funding model to stake a claim in the market....
New SuperRatings data highlighting the outperformance of industry superannuation funds over the long-term shows the representative trustee governance system is a superior...
A steadily increasing number of retirees say they are financially unprepared for retirement, according to Investment Trends research....
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...