The superannuation industry’s obsession with low fees has wrongly been a focus of the Financial System Inquiry, which should instead be tackling underperformance....
Profitable investing in the post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC) environment requires far more than simple good luck or good management. Instead, a new paper by AMP Capital...
The Findex Group has formally acquired financial planning and accounting firm Crowe Horwath after eyeing the business for months. ...
The prevention of advice crises in a post-Murray financial system will hinge on differentiating between wholesale and retail investors, an investor registry head believes...
The Commonwealth Bank’s financial advice remediation program has attracted more than 4500 cases from aggrieved customers in its first few months, an independent review ha...
SMSFs breed more satisfied Australian customers than their industry and retail counterparts, according to a survey. ...
The boom is over: long live the boom. A greying developed world, China’s slowdown and the faltering performance of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Afric...
TAL recruits IAG's Mary Maini to key claims role. ...
Northward Capital picks up Uniting Financial Services mandate. ...
AMP Capital makes six products available via the ASX mFund Settlement Service. ...
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?...