To help restore the Budget, provide greater tax certainty, and improve the country’s economic competitiveness a key tax measure has passed through the Parliament....

The FPA’s national roadshow on retirement planning and best interest duty attracted almost 3000 registrations, with two shows remaining. ...

Property investors are forecasting that non-residential assets will outperform the equities market over the coming 12 to 24 months, the API reveals....

Active management is sold on the basis of past performance and not bought by investors according to an indices provider executive....

Australia’s largest industry fund has added its voice to calls to limit super tax concessions to eliminate scope for estate planning....

ASIC has lost a legal action to penalise Mariner and past and current directors relating to a proposed takeover offer for Austock....

The States are adding costs to deferred lifetime annuities by imposing ambiguous and uncertain stamp duty rules....

IOOF seeks to rebuff newspaper allegations and points to ongoing legal disputation with a former employee....

Traditional wealth management firms may be lagging behind their upstart rivals in client service, particularly in servicing the digital demands of today’s customers....

Investors need to let go of traditional asset allocation if they are to capture yield they need in retirement, Principal Global Investors believes....

It seems small businesses are responding to the Federal Budget’s stimulus with spending at a record high in May since 2012....

Mortgage lenders are likely to pull the plug on interest only loans in response to warning from APRA about the need to slow investor credit growth....

Almost half of Australian households would have enough income to last them only three months or less if the main income earner were to lose their job. ...

Large scale asset managers have not added to financial instability but weathered the financial crisis well according to ASIC and IOSCO chair, Greg Medcraft....

The length of time taken to transition to new hybrid remuneration structures remains the last major issue to be resolved resulting from the Trowbridge Report....

Is CPA Australia’s financial planning venture an assertive move to lift industry standards or an act of post-exemption self-preservation?...

Assuming the Budget's asset test changes pass through the Senate advisers and their clients will have until 2017 to change their strategy, if their account-based pension ...

Creditors have voted unanimously in favour of liquidating four of the 10 BBY companies, with two to be dealt with under a Deed of Company Arrangement. ...

Proprietary models are the view of investment managers when it comes to looking at the transparency of smart beta ETFs. ...

Australia’s labour market is transforming, with net hiring intentions remaining strong in financial services and insurance, counter balancing a dip in mining and resource...