New survey data has confirmed that the online sales of life/risk insurance have been increasing exponentially – up 108 per cent over the past five years....
KPMG Australia is looking to grow its advisory presence in the evolving wealth and life/risk sectors....
AMP Limited has awarded individual planners and planning practices across its dealer group network....
Both the Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers will be using the highly-charged feedback received from their members to the Financial A...
Suncorp and Allianz have been obliged to make refunds to customers worth millions of dollars after being found to have offered so-called ‘add-on’ insurance of little or n...
Money Management has confirmed that a number of the major life insurers received letters for the Royal Commission into alleged misconduct in Australia’s banking superannu...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has told a Parliamentary Committee it will be four years and $19 million later before it is equipped to monitor whole...
IOOF builds on its adviser capability by appointing former Australian Unity executive, Mark Horton Andrews to the newly created role of head of adviser standards, client ...
New research has pointed to the degree to which market uncertainty has created a gold opportunity for fund managers to go direct to investors....
The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer has used a speech in Hong Kong to invite offshore players to consider the benefits of Australia’s FinTech r...


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....
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...