A Budget user-pays approach to financial services regulation could hit licensee and other planning costs....
Despite the efforts of licensees to promote succession planning, only a fifth of financial planners have a comprehensive roadmap in place, a survey has revealed. ...
The Department of Employment has acknowledged that no provision has been made for communicating default fund outcomes to employers....
The AFP and ASIC have charged an ABS public servant and a NAB employee with insider trading netting $7 million....
Saving for retirement has become all the more pertinent as expenditure for couples looking for a ‘comfortable’ retirement rose by 0.3 per cent to $57,817 a year in the Ma...
Ukraine turmoil and Chinese uncertainty prompt Nikko Asset Management to cut its stance on global equities from overweight to neutral. ...
Financial services is one of last professions to outsource routine procedures to improve productivity....
Hunter Hall appoints former AMP Capital staffer Barbara Glover as head of retail sales....
A roundtable has agreed that Australia needs a Government-sanctioned retirement incomes adequacy index and a shift from lump sums to income streams....
AMP chief executive Craig Meller has told shareholders the company is re-engineering its insurance business, believing recent customer behaviour may be here to stay....
The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...
ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...
ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...