The tightening of the professional indemnity insurance market has led the corporate regulator to amend its requirements of Australian Financial Services Licensees....
HFA Asset Management believes the use of the HFA brand by HFA Accelerator Plus, a fund it currently has a management agreement with, is generating confusion among investo...
The Federal Government has improved the death and invalidity benefits of the Military Superannuation and Benefits Scheme (MSBS)....
Japanese fund manager Nomura Asset Management will be launching a retail China fund in Australia next month....
Structured products are often marketed on the premise that they can help protect an investor’s underlying investment. However, as Lucinda Beaman reports, advisers should ...
A fight has broken out between listed investment company HFA Accelerator Plus and its manager, HFA Asset Management, with the latter threatening legal action over the use...
As a result of the ongoing Government inquiries into the financial services industry, advisers will need to offer clients the "best products" - not just those pushed in-h...
Super funds rejecting intra-fund advice relief and turning to the associated Regulatory Guide to develop advice offerings....
The Government has announced it will amend tax law in investors' favour, removing any fear that tax deductions for investments in Timbercorp and Great Southern forestry s...
The chief executive of Willmott Forests believes the forestry investment sector is recovering from the damage caused by the collapses of Great Southern and Timbercorp, wi...
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?...