The Financial Services Council has called on financial institutions to improve their response time to incidents, saying that action was urgently needed if they were going...

Individuals spent an astonishing $29.5 billion on health-related expenses in 2015-16, according to Zurich, and helping clients better understand the risk of illness could...

Proceedings supported by DomaCom in the Federal Court against the Australian Taxation Office regarding the interpretation of superannuation regulations have drawn to a cl...

The Australian Taxation Office will start issuing excess transfer balance cap determinations to taxpayers with over $1.6 million in their super in the pension phase....

The Royal Commission has raised the issue of the enforceability of the life insurance code of practice, with the Financial Services Council facing tough questions on whet...

Financial Services Council chief executive, Sally Loane, has admitted to the Royal Commission that insurers effectively pay for their products to be sold by advisers....

Financial technology and infrastructure company, Sargon, has announced an agreement to acquire 100 per cent of the issued shares in Decimal Software for $1.41 cash per sh...

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has appointed industry veteran Ken Whitton to the newly created role of professional practice manager....

Superannuation returns can provide lessons for dealing with crises, with the sector’s performance since the GFC showing the importance of taking a long-term view even whe...

The Australian Taxation Office has revealed that Project DO IT provided “valuable intelligence” about financial institutions and advisers that may have been involved in o...