GiveWell director Michael Walsh has been named on the board of in-vestment research group InvestorWeb....
Life insurance research and software business PlanTech has launched a software package which it says will replace paper-based systems used to process proposals and applic...
Financial planners holding insurance broking licences should take note of a recent ASIC warning about disclosure of commissions....
US funds management giant Massachusetts Financial Services (MFS) has launched its first retail offering into the Australian market via a rebadged product which carries th...
Deutsche Funds Management (DFM) is about to launch what it believes are Australia's first themed international funds....
Former Adviser Investment Services (AIS) planners Bill O'Sullivan and Debbie Thompson have decided to venture forth on their own, setting up financial plan-ning group Tri...
Financial planners who have advised clients in the past seven years to use a protected loan for margin lending may soon find themselves with some very dis-gruntled client...
A new product from Macquarie Bank is the first of its kind to provide investors with a high level of exposure to an Australian share market fund without the risks usually...
Australians are now saving more for their holidays than their retirement, a new study reveals....
Reforms to the treatment of retirement income products have not gone far enough, according to the Association which fought hard for the latest changes....
Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...
ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...
ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...
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...