The Association of Financial Advisers has welcomed the exclusion of insurance from the Investment and Financial Services Association's new superannuation charter....

Industry Funds Financial Planning has strong reservations about the veracity of the Investment and Financial Services Association's proposed fee-for-service model within ...

A quarter of financial advisers select managed funds for their clients on the basis of FUM inflows into the fund, according to a survey by BDM Direct....

Dealer group Count Financial yesterday increased its minority stake in Mortgage Choice, buying 1.5 million shares in the franchise group....

The Financial Ombudsman Service appears set to be able to accept complaints by consumers against financial advisers up to a value of $500,000 from next year....

The widespread notion that infrequent valuations are misrepresenting the values of unlisted assets appears to be unfounded, according to a survey by Frontier Investment C...

The AAG Agri-Index has risen for a second consecutive fortnight, adding 1 per cent to its value over the period from the May 29 to June 11....

New Federal Financial Services Minister Chris Bowen would consider legislating against the use of commissions as remuneration in the superannuation industry "as a last re...

Colonial First State Global Asset Management chief executive Mark Lazberger has questioned the role key financial services associations play in building community trust i...

Every asset management educational program and course should have an ethical code as its foundation, according to Perpetual's group executive of global equities, Emilio G...