The ATO is going after companies that fail to pay employees super entitlements, recovering $8 million from labour-hire company operators. ...

Safe harbours could provide a fairer valuations system then current legislation, while achieving the intended outcomes, the IGT believes....

Large scale investment managers and superannuation funds will not be automatically successful due to their size with performance decreasing as managers move to protect th...

The domination of industry super funds in the modern award system has left virtually no market for higher performing, lower fee funds, according to the Financial Services...

Certainty around the FOFA reforms is set to provide financial services sector employers with the security to increase staff numbers a new survey reveals....

Financial advisers need to start thinking about flat fee for service arrangements becoming the new normal....

Retail superannuation funds have continued to close the returns gap with industry funds....

Non-major lenders dominated the home loan market in January and notched up the highest proportion of home loans since the GFC, mortgage broker AFG revealed....

Super balances do not provide an accurate picture of retirement income and should be replaced with annual forward looking estimates according to a financial consultant an...

Super funds rounded out last year with higher than expected gains, bringing the five year median growth rate to eight per cent, according to SuperRatings. ...

Recently introduced penalties are ensuring fewer SMSFs are falling foul of the law, however, there has been a spike in borrowing breaches, new research reveals....

Financial services brands that have lost the trust of the public may struggle to get it back, with consumers “switching off” when they see their ads. ...

Frydenberg commits to changing an SG Charge regime described as “unnecessarily harsh”....

A number of advisers have launched a crowd-funding effort to counter the negative publicity which has impacted the planning profession....

JP Morgan Global Strategic Bond Fund added to BT, Asgard and IOOF platforms....

Kinetic Super has made three exeuctive officer appointments on continuing growth journey....

Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre has appointed Peter Vann to develop a funds and wealth management stream....

Son succeeds father as CEO at Hewison Private Wealth....

Prime retail property assets are expected to remain a solid investment despite the growth of e-commerce, TIAA Henderson Real Estate (THRE) believes....

SPAA chief executive, Andrea Slattery, says SMSF trustees should feel comforted by the level of regulatory scrutiny the sector receives....