MFAA claims mortgage brokers have not been through any major scandals as a result of lower levels of risk and the application of higher professional standards...

Financial advisers are among the most likely professionals to be eradicated by technology or “robo-advice” – a prognosis that has drawn both disbelief and opportunism fro...

The Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption as specifically referenced union links to super funds as being a factor in its initial report....

Commonwealth Bank of Australia consumers who have not claimed funds left on expired Travel Money Cards within 12 months of the expiry will no longer forfeit the cash to t...

Mike Taylor writes that industry fund members represent a large and largely untapped client base for financial planners to which the FPA has rightly sought to provide acc...

While it may sound paradoxical, approaching financial planning like a friendship or relationship could be the key to improving professionalism, Nataliya Denisov writes. ...

Certitude Global Investing Intention Index (CGIII) reveals active Australian investors are looking to increase exposure to international markets but are wary of global ma...

The Australian market’s current risk management offering is a poor fit for the real threats facing local businesses, most of which are “uninsurable”....

Still haunted by memories of the GFC, investors are excessively focusing on yield to the detriment of diversification. Knowing how crises manifest in different ways, they...

Small business satisfaction for the Federal Government seems to be dipping, with many saying it does not understand issues impacting many sectors. ...

The Bank of Queensland has had a solid twelve months, with its growth strategy delivering an underlying profit surge of nine per cent, to $521.7 million. ...

UK businesses continue to drag on NAB earnings....

Zenith has been named Money Management’s Research House of the Year for 2014, taking the title from last year’s winner, Morningstar, writes Nicholas O’Donoghue. ...

Financial planners who act as gatekeepers for clients are working towards their retirement date having missed the next growth area of financial advice....

More than a third of life insurance advice has not been appropriate according to a review conducted by ASIC....

Uncontrollable factors are derailing the best laid retirement plans of many Australians, with the average retiree outliving their superannuation savings by five years, ne...

Up and coming research and investments house Zenith Investment Partners has bumped established players, Morningstar and Lonsec, from the top spot to become Money Manageme...

Lawyers call for limit to FOS’ monetary jurisdiction which exceeds that of many courts....

AdviserLogic leverages Omnium to deliver RiskLogic upgrade....

Perpetual launches Listed Investment Company leveraging its mid-cap expertise....