More high net worth individuals are seeking advice and are willing to pay for specialised services with many choosing to work with a single advice provider....

Generation X women are mimicking the risk-cautious investment habits of retirees, a problematic trend considering they are in their prime accumulation phase. ...

Victims of Financial Fraud group lash Medcraft’s call for tougher penalties, citing regulator’s past failures....

Accountants who provide advice on self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) need to consider the level of advice they want to give clients before new licensing rules come...

ASIC has ordered NAB to tweak claims on its home loan rate advertisements, as part of its crackdown on false and misleading advertising. ...

Fund manager, Placer Property, is seeking $26.5 million in equity from SMSFs and individual investors for its NewActon East Property Fund....

While the typical SMSF couple at age 65 are in good stead for a comfortable retirement, big spending SMSFs have been warned against over-confidence, new research reveals....

ANZ suspended trading yesterday afternoon after inadvertently releasing some telling financial details, days before the bank’s scheduled unveiling of its results. ...

The recent push by financial services institutions to lift education standards has resulted in women making up a majority of those being trained....

Most Australians are in the dark about how much commission mortgage brokers are earning for their home loan advice, a survey has revealed. ...

News Corporation’s Eureka Report is set to start testing a digital investor engagement solution next month, as talks continue with platform provider, OneVue. ...

The financial advisers’ register is missing key bits of information, defeating the purpose of the register to make information transparent to consumers....

FOS chief obudsman, Shane Tregellis rejects calls for a limit to its monetary jurisdiction and claims those urging a more legalistic approach are ingoring recent changes....

Suncorp has finished remediating its life and general insurance businesses after breaches that saw the insurer pay back $23 million to customers. ...

Office space in Adelaide is expected to continue to provide low rental returns for investors as an oversupply drags rents down, a new report reveals....

Australian taxpayers who voluntarily disclose their offshore income and assets under Project DO IT will not face a ‘red flag’....

Investors who are in it for the long-haul can exploit opportunities arising from short-term investors’ actions, but risk making investments based on poor forecasts, a new...

SMSF retirees drawing more than the ‘comfortable’ income level should not become over-confident, a research paper warned....

Deferred lifetime annuities would cost the Federal Government nothing to introduce and would begin to have an immediate impact on retirement income savings, according to ...

Financial services companies are almost matching government regulatory costs with their own self-inflicted rules, and effectively “choking themselves in red tape”....