Pressure on super funds to move to full daily unit pricing as a means of distributing investment earnings to members is “unfair on the many funds that have well construct...
Perpetual Investments is increasing fees across its range of wholesale Australian share funds and balanced growth funds that have Australian shares in them....
The terms of engagement of a planner with a SMSF trustee should be precisely delineated to protect planners from claims for negligence from trustees, according to Argyle ...
Magellan Financial Group is to launch its Magellan Flagship Fund today, which is expected to become Australia’s largest global equities fund on listing next month....
Financial planning and software provider IWL and compliance and training consultancy Adviser Solutions have entered a business alliance to promote their services to clien...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is considering making it mandatory for so-called ‘shelf fee’ arrangements between fund managers and dealer groups to ...
Almost two-thirds of working Australians with a mortgage have no income protection insurance, according to new research from Mercer Wealth Solutions....
Maple Brown Abbott PST headed up Mercer Investment Consulting’s balanced funds performance survey for the first 2005-06 quarter, returning 4.2 per cent or 1.2 per cent ov...
LG Financial Strategies has entered into an equity partnership with Ipac Securities, becoming the ninth financial planning practice to do so since the launch of ipac’s Eq...
Financial services provider DKN Financial Group has acquired a $2.55 million minority stake in South Australia financial planning firm Thornton Group....


ASIC has canceled the AFSL of Sydney-based asset consultant and research firm....
ASIC has banned a Melbourne-based financial adviser for eight years over false and misleading statements regarding clients’ superannuation investments....
BlackRock Australia plans to launch a Bitcoin ETF later this month, wrapping the firm’s US-listed version which is US$85 billion in size....
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
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...