An advice association has called for the financial adviser exam to be scrapped, arguing it has served its purpose and is an unnecessary expense....
A quarter of fund managers surveyed by Frontier have named the move towards internalisation by super funds as the biggest challenge to their business as they seek to reta...
ASIC has indicated its disappointment that “little improvement” has been made on the reportable situation regime but financial advice breaches have declined over the year...
AMP has reached the next stage in the sale of its real estate and infrastructure business to Dexus, but it remains yet to be completed 18 months after entering into agree...
Membership of the FAAA declined by 11.7 per cent in the last financial year, according to its 2023 annual report, three times faster than the overall decline in adviser n...
Pinnacle has reported challenges in the domestic retail and institutional market where it is expending resources to ensure it is ready for a market recovery....
A former Ord Minnett financial adviser, who is being sued by the firm, has been temporarily banned from contacting her former clients after it was found 17 clients moved ...
A global advisory firm has been ordered by the Federal Court to freeze its funds and assets for failing to lodge financial statements....
Fidelity has launched its latest global equities fund, the Fidelity Global Long Short Fund, in response to client demand in Australia....
The government has announced it is taking steps to amend the transfer balance cap to prevent super fund members from being adversely impacted when funds merge....
After last month’s surprise hold, the Reserve Bank of Australia has announced its latest interest rate decision....
A professional year supervisor has been banned for five years after advice provided by his provisional relevant provider was deemed to be inappropriate, the first time th...
WT Financial’s Keith Cullen is eager for its Hubco initiative to see advice firms under its licence trade at multiples which are catching up to those UK and US financial ...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...