ASIC has approved nearly 500 applications for relief from provisions of federal legislation during the past September quarter. ...

Treasury Group is expected to increase its stake in Northern Lights Capital Group following a successful capital raising which was oversubscribed by more than five times ...

Traditional asset allocation models are no longer guaranteed to perform in the current economic climate and should be abandoned in favour of models that use alternative a...

FPA chief executive Mark Rantall has asked members to imagine a profession that is highly regarded and urged them to get behind recommended changes to higher education an...

Planners should lift their knowledge about compliance and risk management issues as this area is often overlooked by research houses and is not actively overseen by regul...

Super balances do not provide an accurate picture of retirement income and should be replaced with annual forward looking estimates according to a financial consultant an...

Large scale investment managers and superannuation funds will not be automatically successful due to their size with performance decreasing as managers move to protect th...

AFA Chief Commercial Officer Anne Fuchs will leave the association after six months in the role to take on a distribution role with Sunsuper....

All forms of agribusiness managed investment schemes (MIS) should be shut down and all government support for the schemes removed to avoid further losses from the public ...

The raft of reviews and inquiries into the financial planning sector has created the optimal set of circumstances in which to lift professional and educational standards ...