PIR Research Group has launched a new market for agribusiness and property-based managed investment schemes on the Bendigo Stock Exchange (BSX)....
A war of words has begun between three industry bodies over disclosure of commissions on risk products and the viability of the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA)....
The Australian funds management market place is being increasingly dominated by the top five fund managers, who now control 67 per cent of the total market by size....
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has disqualified two former directors of Commercial Nominees of Australia (CNAL) from acting as responsible officers...
Investment sentiment among both financial advisers and investors is at rock bottom, according to surveys conducted by Adviser Ratings and the Australian Investors Associa...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) could have its own in-house professional indemnity (PI) solution for members within a month, if the association approves a propos...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) have joined forces to warn the Australian Prudential Regulation Auth...
Japanese investors are stubbornly ambivalent to the provision of financial advice according to US-based research firm Cerulli Associates, meaning Japanese advisers are co...
When the Federal Government announced that from July 1, 2001, superannuation assets were to be exempted from the social security income and assets tests from age 55 until...
The Financial Planning Association has heard all the criticisms levelled at the industry, and Allan Crompton says the focus has always been on higher standards....
A serious rift is developing between consumers and the financial planning industry over the release of a damning report criticising the quality of financial planning advi...
Justine Harris answers your questions in depth....
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?...