A new report on general insurance disclosure reveals a desire to steer clear of the personal advice regime and a push to get ASIC relief to do so. ...

TAL Direct, trading as InsuranceLine, paid a $10,200 penalty for a false and misleading advertisement for its Income Protection Plus product ...

A troubling trend has emerged in wealth management customer satisfaction. According to a recent EY survey, less than a third of wealth management firms rate their client-...

ASIC has permanently banned former Equititrust CEO, Mark McIvor from providing financial services after he breached a law. ...

SMSF trustees and their advisers will become advocates for managed portfolios once the administrative benefits are realised, according to Hub24....

Majority of investors considered ESG issues in their investment decisions although how ESG affects investment management is still not understood. ...

ASIC has disqualified a third person this week from being an approved self-managed super fund auditor....

Money Management once again teamed up with research house, DEXX&R, for the twelfth consecutive year to recognise excellence in the life/risk industry at the 2015 Adviser ...

Advisers need to speak to clients in a language they can relate to, AFA chief executive, Brad Fox believes....

Stephen Halmarick, Head of Economic and Market Research, Colonial First State Global Asset Management announced to join our expert panel for this Thursday. Last chance to...

Most accountants have not started their licence application or made a decision on what SMSF licensing path to pursue, according to a survey....

New Investment Trends research confirms that financial advice still costs more than most consumers are willing to pay....

Australian advisers need to get ahead of regulations and legislation to avoid having to deal with significant change, the FPA believes....

Conduct risk will be a central theme for life insurers and regulators over the next decade, an expert believes....

Inconsistencies in the assumptions used by various superannuation calculators have the potential to damage consumer trust, Chant West reports....

ING Direct will adopt an advice referral model used by industry fund, Cbus, in partnership with the FPA....

Two Australian firms have been named in the top five fastest growing technology companies in Asia, according to an annual survey by Deloitte....

Advisers need to consider how new products and a changing client profile might warrant a new approach to fixed income, according to FIIG Securities....

The Government must broaden collective investment vehicles and simplify its tax treatment if Australia is to become a financial services exporter. ...

Despite the stereotype of a cash-centric approach, new data reveals SMSFs to be amongst the most active equities traders....