Laura Dew

Laura Dew is editor at Money Management. Prior to joining MM, she spent five years working at Investment Week in the UK, covering asset and wealth management.

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Financial planning

17 Jun

FPA calls for update to tax status of advice fees

All financial advice should be tax-deductible to improve the advice gap, according to the Financial Planning Association of Australia’s submission to the Quality of Advic...

Financial planning

17 Jun

Less than 10 advisers leave this week

There was a notable improvement in the number of adviser exits this week with less than 10 advisers leaving, compared to several weeks of triple-digit falls....

People & Products

17 Jun

MLC chief exec to retire

MLC Life Insurance has announced chief executive, Rodney Cook, will retire at the end of the year and has appointed a replacement....

Financial planning

16 Jun

Shame of depression contributing to advisers’ struggle

With Men’s Health Week taking place this week, struggling advisers have been warned they should not feel ashamed to seek help as shame is holding the industry back from a...

Policy & Regulation

15 Jun

Firm fined $1.7m for charging deceased estates

A former subsidiary of Commonwealth Bank has been penalised $1.7 million for failing to update defective disclosure statements, the first conviction of its kind....

Funds management

15 Jun

ETF Securities acquired by Mirae Asset

ETF Securities has been acquired by Mirae Asset and Global X ETFs as a way for the firms to broaden their reach in Australia....

Financial planning

15 Jun

Overseas insurers hesitant to insure Aussie financial advisers

The Australian financial advice industry needs to demonstrate to overseas insurers that it has improved as firms are expressing concern about insuring advisers or large d...

Superannuation

15 Jun

Expect two more years of M&A in super: APRA

The prudential regulator has confirmed it is expecting to see the rapid pace of consolidation among superannuation funds to continue for the next two years....

Funds management

15 Jun

The questions ASIC hope will stop greenwashing

There are nine questions that fund managers need to ask themselves when launching a fund in order to prevent greenwashing, according to ASIC....

People & Products

15 Jun

Supply/demand problem for ESG specialists

There is a keen need for more specialists in environmental, social and governance, according to a panel, if the industry is going to be able to work towards achieving net...