CPA Australia’s planning move has serious competitive implications for accountants already running planning practices....

Franklin Templeton bond fund positively received by SQM Research and added to Colonial First State’s platform....

Market movements contributed to a 15 per cent growth for the funds management and platforms sector in the year to the end of March....

Two major market indices have made changes to allow investors to track share yield and gain exposure to the China A-shares market....

MLC Private Equity will open a New York office and has secured a team head for the new venture while fintech hub Stone and Chalk has already outgrown its new home before ...

The expansion of business development capabilities has been front of mind for three mid-size funds management groups with new appointments to cover the eastern and southe...

Alena Miles explains why marriage should prompt advisers to re-visit clients’ estate planning. ...

Australia’s compulsory superannuation is not only helping diversify assets but is also reducing the cost of the Age Pension and risk, ASFA believes....

The overall investment platform sector has grown more than 15 per cent buoyed by strong investment markets and inflows into the wrap and master trust sub-sectors....

Former Moody’s associate, Daniel Joffe, and his co-accused, Nathan Stromer, have been convicted by the Supreme Court after pleading guilty to two counts of insider tradin...

Property buyers looking to make their first home purchase an investment face more challenges than other investors, research reveals....

Demand for services that will enable accountants to continue providing SMSF advice after the accountants’ exemption is removed next year, is behind Aura Group’s majority ...

Queensland industry fund QSuper launched an online financial advice tool, and an online dashboard, indicating a shift into financial advice....

The move by liquidator PPB Advisory to de-register a managed investment scheme Trio Capital invested in has been labelled “disastrous” by the Victims of Financial Fraud. ...

Challenger enters alliance with administrator AAS to deliver annuity products to major super funds....

Financial planners have been told they are to lose the grandfathered remuneration status of super to pension transfers under FirstChoice....

Former director of BD & WJ Hassell, Barry David Hassell, has been convicted of 39 charges of dishonest conduct and sentenced to 12 months imprisonment....

Commercial property investors are reaping the rewards of their investments, with bricks and mortar assets providing higher returns than bonds and equities....

Funds management firm, Fat Prophets, is aiming to give self-managed super investors greater control of their investments through its Super Prophets online platform....

Boutique fund managers seemed to have clawed back after a post-GFC slowdown, outdoing non-boutique funds and indices over the past 20 years....