Commonwealth Financial Services’ more cautious investment style appears to be working. Zilla Efrat takes a look at its philosophy and approach to investment decisions....
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) are in discussions with a view to merging their external complaints ...
A recent survey by Australian Property Institute (API) New South Wales Division has found that property experts still expect growth in retail property in Australia’s thre...
Commonwealth Securities, the Commonwealth Bank’s stockbroking arm, says it has experienced strong interest in the US share trading service it launched earlier this month....
The Australian Tax Office (ATO) says it may not be able to process all of the 110 applications it has so far received for product rulings before June, 30, 1999, despite h...
News that Hartley Poynton has signed up the first two users for its new online share trading service – including AMP’s Hillross financial planning arm – is yet another ch...
Five years have passed since ASSIRT rattled the market with news of its pay-to-be-rated scheme. Zilla Efrat revisits the debate and examines what has happened since....
ParaPlanning Professionals, which claims to have pioneered the concept of contract paraplanning in Australia, has opened an office in New South Wales....
The Securities Institute is to offer a Master of Applied Finance and Investment course from July onwards for what it terms Australia’s “finance elite”....
Australian members of AOL now have access to the Quicken.com.au investment service, thanks to a recent alliance formed between AOL in Australia and Intuit, a leading inte...
AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....
A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...
The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....
I don't have any faith in the regulator. I've stopped reading these and just think some poor guy got busted for a spell...
By having trustees supervise client directed payments from their pension funds, Stephen Jones and the federal Labor gove...
Now we now the size of Stephen Jones' CSOLR tax, I doubt anyone will be employer any new financial adviser from this poi...