If there was an Olympics Games for failure, the implementation of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority would be a finalist, according to a Labor MP....
Giving once-off advice is still costly for advisers to provide and will not solve the pricing issue which has come out of the rising cost of advice....
The opposition has backed the recommended two-year review of the bill as it can’t be “set and forget” and the Government’s management of standards reform has been a “trai...
Jo-Anne Bloch has been appointed as independent non-executive director of Colonial First State Investments Limited and Avanteos Investments Limited....
Chris Durack will leave the firm at the end of October after a decade and Susan Soh will be the sole head of Schroders’ APAC business....
ANZ has appointed former Colonial First State Global Asset Management executive, Christine O’Reilly, as a non-executive director, bringing the firm’s female board represe...
Nathalie Wallace has been appointed from a Natixis affiliate and will be responsible for growth in all aspects of sustainable investment....
John Shuttleworth has been appointed to lead Centrepoint Alliance in its next phase of growth as it focuses on expanding its offering and digitising key services....
While the authority argues the high pass rate shows it is an achievable exam for “competent” advisers and has been a boost for consumer confidence in the industry, data s...
The ‘big end of town’ which caused the regulatory burden should be forced to pay their share of levy costs, according to The Advisers Association, even if they have left ...
The life insurer’s board has assessed that it will “not be appropriate” to repay JobKeeper funds after its 2020 calendar year net profit declined $4.6 million from the pr...
Markets are being overly pessimistic about the future of retail, according to Airlie, as there are opportunities still in play for retail growth after the pandemic....
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?...