Planners have next to no education in the area of direct property investment, which, according to some industry commentators, is a serious oversight. Mike Taylor reports....
As the financial services sector has grown and matured throughout South-East Asia, Australia has emerged as an educational centre of excellence. Mike Taylor reports....
The Australian Labor Party is expected to outline a full choice superannuation model when it uses next month’s Association of Superannuation Funds Australia (ASFA) annual...
The financal services industry should abandon its focus on end-of-month performance figures with investors needing to understand quarterly data at least presents a more a...
The Federal Government will today gazette amended superannuation portability regulations after having reached agreement with the Australian Democrats on the consolidation...
AMP Limited has cleared one of the final hurdles to the demerger of its Australian and UK operations, following receipt today of ‘in principle’ approval from the Australi...
Australia’s best-performing super funds recently have been those with a higher than average allocation towards property and minimal exposure to international equities, wr...
The Australian Democrats will continue their support for legislation supporting superannuation co-contributions for low-income earners when it returns to the Senate, desp...
The Federal Government is today expected to veto yesterday’s Senate amendments to its superannuation legislation which in effect clear the way for the transmission of tax...
Investors have been warned to taper their high bullish sentiment levels towards Australian equities by the president of the Australian Investors’ Association (AIA), Bob A...
AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....
A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...
The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....
By having trustees supervise client directed payments from their pension funds, Stephen Jones and the federal Labor gove...
Now we now the size of Stephen Jones' CSOLR tax, I doubt anyone will be employer any new financial adviser from this poi...
Amazing ! Between the beginning of licencing Feb 2002 and 2008 this was a very good stable industry.Then the do-gooders...