Increased stamp duty on UK rental properties should be seen in the context of the asset being a long-term investment for expat investors....

Australian women need to be more proactive with their superannuation or risk falling further behind the gender pay gap, according to superannuation fund, Kinetic Super....

Beacon Financial Group has signed on as the first distributor of new super fund, Endeavour Super, while selecting OneVue’s Luminous as its platform. ...

Financial services specialist, Fiducian Group, has announced a series of enhancements to its online offering in a bid to help support Australian financial planners....

Corporate governance is a key point of differentiation when it comes to investment performance, according to Aberdeen....

Continuing uncertainty about the future of super taxation has increased “precautionary” saving....

Despite the rapid rise of digital/robo advice, face-to-face advice will continue to dominate, according to research by Comparator Business Benchmarking....

Federal Treasurer, Scott Morrison, says industry funds cannot rely on past investment performance to absolve them from necessary governance changes....

APRA has appointed former Suncorp Life CEO, Geoff Summerhayes as a member, while Helen Rowell has been appointed full-time deputy chair until 2018. ...

Australian Unity is going back to the future with its latest mortgage fund offering....

Plato has launched a global share income fund aimed at providing diversification and income for retirees....

The Australian equity market had not generated earnings growth for some time, and this could continue into 2016 unless there are interest rate cuts. ...

Targeting the “market’s tendency to be selectively irrational” in response to changes within companies is central to the pragmatic approach of Antipodes Partners....

The FSC has congratulated Helen Rowell on her new appointment as APRA full-time deputy chair, and pointed to her consultative approach in her dealings with the industry a...

ASIC has secured orders permanently restraining a real estate group from encouraging clients to establish an SMSF in order to invest in property....

Recently announced life/risk reforms ensure ongoing viability of personal risk advice compared to the risks of disruption inherent in the initial recommendations....

Spring Financial Group declares intention to grow planning business via franchise-based expansion....

Two key industry funds, NGS Super and QIEC, have entered discussions on merging to create a master trust....

New calls have emerged for the merger of the FPA and AFA, and a clear dividing line between advice and product....

Manoj Abichandani has been disqualified from being an approved SMSF auditor by ASIC after providing deliberately misleading statements....