ASFA has changed its constitution to give itself the ability to adjust to change in the superannuation industry....

A perpetual investments survey showed advisers think a growing SMSF market is helping revive LICs....

Managed investments and superannuation funds have underperformed their benchmarks through a combination of index hugging and high management fees with nearly fifteen per ...

A Victorian financial adviser has been banned from providing financial services for seven years after an ASIC investigation found he had breached “numerous financial serv...

Resigning AWI chairman, Andrew Barnes, flags possibility of company pursuing action to recover van Eyk losses. ...

A former Storm Financial adviser has had a charge against him dropped after an elderly witness deemed critical to the prosecution’s case died, ASIC reports. ...

The FSC welcomed the China-Australia free trade agreement, saying it will give fund managers direct access to China and boost the nations’ financial services trade....

Financial services has usurped mining and manufacturing as Australia’s fastest growing industry, but little research has been done to determine the key drivers of growth....

New aged care reforms are making the process of entering an aged care accommodation even more complex, a specialist in aged care advice claims....

Portfolio strategies used by equity fund managers in Australia do not always match their stated investment philosophies, new research by the CIFR reveals....

SMSFs have on average only seven per cent of their total holdings in residential property hosing down claims that SMSFs are moving into that sector as investors....

New research suggests SMSF advice is a prime area for consolidation....

AMP Capital has announced a change in the leadership of its property investment team with the retirement of its Chief Investment Officer, Property Andrew Bird after a 37 ...

Alternative investment manager, Artesian Venture Partners (Artesian) and KPMG Australia (KPMG) have struck up an alliance with the aim of engaging the corporate sector wi...

AMP has announced the rationalisation of Genesys with member firms being given the opportunity to transition to other AMP licensees....

The proportion of total retirement incomes funds under management (FUM) held in Self-Managed Superannuation Funds (SMSFs) is set to taper off, as benefit payments exceed ...

Australians working in the financial services sector believe they will have to move jobs to improve their chances of career progression, a new survey reveals....

Australian super funds’ median growth fund returned 1.4 per cent over October 2014, according to the Morningstar Australian Superannuation Survey. ...

Industry public offer fund Sunsuper and the Financial Planning Association (FPA) have announced they have agreed to a national referral program....

The Federal Opposition will push to disallow the FOFA amendments in the Senate after Labor Senator Sam Dastyari stated it had secured the numbers to win a vote on the mat...