The superannuation industry’s obsession with low fees has wrongly been a focus of the Financial System Inquiry, which should instead be tackling underperformance....

The FSC has told a Parliamentary Committee that ASIC needs to get more proactive in pursuing enforcement when planning breaches occur....

Long-serving Energy Super chairman, Bob Henricks steps down to be replaced by his deputy, Mark Williamson....

The platform joint venture between OneVue and the Eureka report has gone live....

Mortgage Choice appoints MLC’s John Flavell as its new CEO....

Zenith grants AMP Wholesale Australian Bond Fund a ‘recommended’ rating....

Iress secures former Merrill Lynch executive, Niki Beattie, for its board....

The former director of a foreign exchange provider has been “restrained” from providing financial services after providing services not covered by its licence....

A statutory compensation scheme for victims of financial adviser misconduct would force well-managed licensees to bail out those who failed in their obligations according...

Calls by the Parliamentary Joint Committee for financial advisers to undertake specialist self-managed super fund training if they advise in this area has received a tick...

Potential mis-selling and poor advice are likely in the forestry managed investment scheme sector if amendments to FOFA are allowed to proceed, according to Industry Supe...

The AFA says advisers are too often being blamed for product failures and the misdeeds of others....

The corporate regulator has hit out at the media for saying it bungled a loan fraud case worth $110 million, claiming the transgression it’s being blamed for is outside i...

AIST and Mercer have joined hands to develop a super tracker to objectively evaluate the super system ahead of its response to the FSI....

While their members see little value in sporting sponsorships, super fund executives and trustees are split on the issue....

Planners are actively investing client funds in growth assets and making greater use of passive strategies but are calling on more information from fund managers....

Superannuation funds’ marketing budgets would be better spent on email and newspaper campaigns than on TV advertising, new data reveals....

Law firm Maurice Blackburn has issued a warning on the Macquarie client compensation processes and the dangers of vertically integrated advice....

Legislation to include deemed income from account-based pensions in the income test for eligibility for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card (CSHC) has recently come into...

A South African listed property fund is continuing its push into the Australian market, with the purchase of its first property in Victoria....