The financial services industry remains inefficient because its success means it does not have to improve. However Tom Collins argues this will spur on the next wave of c...
AMP is considering a make-over or even a sale for its investment administration business, Cogent....
A recent survey by financial services software specialist Esprit Information Technology has found technology is not always a solution for many financial services industry...
These are the gatekeepers, the traditional custodians of investor’s interests, the middle-men between those with the money and the fund managers that invest it. They are ...
Colonial First State Investments will next week boost its adviser commissions on entry fees for retail funds by a further 20 per cent, giving advisers the full 100 per ce...
Colonial First State Investments has introduced a nil-entry-fee pricing structure for its investment products, giving investors the option to pay no up front application ...
Superannuation is not the sole answer to the issues surrounding Australia’s retirement incomes policy according to ING Financial Planning’s technical strategy manager Lou...
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...
The Government’s options paper for the reform of the regulatory environment surrounding superannuation was developed, according to the Minister for Financial Services Joe...
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...
This week, Ramani (SG) Venkatramani, the general manager of APRA’s diversified institutions division, will fly to a conference of worldwide pensions industry representati...
Accounting and financial planning group Investment Taxation Specialists (ITS) has hit the hustings in the final days of the election campaign in a last ditch attempt to g...
APIR, the group responsible for providing codes for managed funds, has scored a major coup with the announcement that the Association of Financial Advisers had signed up ...
The Federal Treasurer, Peter Costello, has ruled a future Coalition government out of raising the level of compulsory employer superannuation contributions despite mounti...
The Australian Labor Party (ALP) will set up an inquiry into superannuation within 100 days of taking office, Labor party deputy leader Simon Crean announced as part of t...
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....