Fund-of-hedge-fund and multi-strategy managers are tailoring their products to provide investors with improved protection in negative markets, according to Standard & Poo...
AMP has appointed former Super Concepts managing director Craig Jameson to help set up its new SMSF business unit....
Challenger is set to launch a new advertising campaign targeted at financial planners which will focus on the 'do nots' of asset allocation for retirees....
A South-Australian based financial planner has pleaded guilty to one count of deception and two counts of dishonest dealings with documents....
Hyperion Asset Management has appointed Will Hartnell as a dealer and analyst, bringing the fund manager's Brisbane-based investment team to five....
Ernst and Young's Banking Customer Survey for 2012 found Australian banks are not doing enough to satisfy customers, who are willing to switch banks to source lower fees....
The AIST will be lodging a further submission with the Productivity Commission reinforcing that default superannuation funds must be 'fit for purpose'....
Russell Investments is set to launch a new survey which would measure and rank fund managers on their after-tax returns....
Stephen Miller outlines the key issues recently clarified in an Australian Taxation Office ruling regarding the acquisition of property by self-managed super funds using ...
The latest Chant West data points to most superannuation fund members ending the year in positive territory, but only just....
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?...