Sunsuper’s Corrin Collocott has been appointed to a newly created position at BT Investment Solutions position....

AMP Capital has recruited an experienced industry property specialist to manage its NZ property portfolio....

Martin Currie recruits from Perennial and AllianceBernstein to expand its sales, marketing, and client services Australian team....

A mortgage broking firm has changed its Chinese-language advertisements after ASIC was concerned their statements could be misleading or deceptive....

ASFA has congratulated former Treasurer, Wayne Swan’s, ex-chief-of-staff, on his appointment to Shadow Minister for financial services and superannuation....

Westpac responds to new liquidity requirements with a rise in interest rates and a $3.5 billion capital raising....

The FPA said the recent life/risk debate focused on remuneration rather than the quality of advice as it launched an advice guide....

Industry Super Australia wheels out its chairman, former NSW Liberal leader, Peter Collins, to urge the new Prime Minister to review and reset super fund governance chang...

The trustees of an SMSF have been fined $40,000 after admitting to almost 70 breaches of the SIS Act, by the Federal Court of Australia....

Australia is proving a popular destination for international commercial property investors, with global investment hitting a pre-GFC high in the first half of 2015....

Success does not come easily to boutique fund managers who have to jump several hurdles to find their way onto advisers’ approved product lists. ...

A change of minister combined with a change in ministerial advisory personnel and Government policy attitudes has altered the dynamic for the key financial services lobby...

The number of Australian companies offering global products and growth has increased significantly, and with it the opportunity for global exposure from investments made ...

Hugh Young asks how investors can spot those moments when markets cease to be rational and throw up value. ...

Platform development must stay focused on its purpose, which is to support the very real value that full financial planning delivers for clients, writes Alan Dunne. ...

Krishna Skandakumar, Heather Gray and Andrew O’Bryan look at the various changes that have occurred in insurance within superannuation and self-managed superannuation fun...

Every once in a while, about as often as a solar eclipse, Outsider’s employer allows him to travel up the front of an aeroplane, usually meaning a seat in business class...

Outsider has never particularly coveted power and so he happily attends lunches and industry events and taps out his stories oblivious to the corporate political machinat...

One way or another, the financial planning industry has provided rich pickings for plaintiff law firms over the past decade and so Outsider was not at all surprised to he...

The Grattan Institute's Jim Minifie argues that the super governance reforms currently being pursued by the Government are defensible - but not the main game for members....