The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is conducting an exhaustive audit of the operations of the country’s largest Australian Financial Services Licensees....
The regulatory and ideological changes taking place in financial services are likely to see a more professional, but leaner, financial planning industry emerge....
Control of the Australian platform market has nearly halved in the past four years to be dominated by three of the nation's big four banks, a situation that would be exac...
The Australian Bankers' Association has warned that while superannuation funds should be able to provide general advice, more detailed advice should be confined to proper...
Australians are more likely to turn to newspapers and online media than professional advisers and financial planners to help with financial decision making, according to ...
The lack of professionals specialising in estate planning in Australia will cause a huge problem for the financial planning industry as their wealthier baby boomer client...
Financial planners attending the AMP and Hillross annual conference in Melbourne have committed to contributions totalling $18,900 for the Future2 Foundation, which suppo...
Performance fees being charged by some fund managers in the Australian equities extension sector are excessive, and are being applied without appropriate benchmarks....
The AIOFP intends to hire a private investigator in Hong Kong to pursue people and companies associated with the missing $118 million from Astarra Asset Management's Alph...
Perpetual warns the Government against adopting a default approach to the provision of advice within super....
Mark Bouris and Ray Miles have joined forces to test the SMA market by calling for expressions of interest to provide a universal managed account platform....
Tactical asset allocation (TAA) has helped fund managers add value over the medium term, according to a Standard & Poor’s multi-sector report....
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?...