Australia’s multi-manager funds have too much exposure to in-house products, too many inefficient mandates with unit trusts, and are confused about alternative investment...
Balanced funds with an overweight position on large cap Australian equities continue to be rewarded, with the ASX 300 again proving the best mainstream home for investors...
Westpac chief executive David Morgan will deliver an upbeat assessment of BT Financial Group to an Australasian investment forum in New York this week....
The Finance Sector Union has begun a campaign to reduce the gap between male and female wages in the financial services industry, a gap it claims is the largest of all in...
MLC is claiming to have achieved better after-tax returns and lower transaction costs just months after introducing it unique ‘emulation’ method for running a multi-manag...
Advisers are not sufficiently educated about listed investment companies and are letting many obvious bargains go begging, according to the author of Australia’s only res...
The Australian Shareholders’ Association is fighting the Government’s proposed watering down of the ‘100-member rule’ for placing a resolution on the agenda of a company’...
BT Financial Group has appointed the seventh and last member of its Investment Management Selection Group, former Intech senior portfolio manager Chris Thompson....
Two of Australia’s best-known retail financial services brands have spread their wings overseas today....
Mercer Human Resources Consulting is urging the Federal Government to raise the pension age from 65 to 67 and to reduce the taxation rate paid by superannuation funds as ...


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....
ASIC has banned a Melbourne-based financial adviser who gave inappropriate advice to his clients including false and misleading Statements of Advice....
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...