Westpac will pay $1 million to support financial counselling and literacy initiatives, for failing to comply with its responsible lending practices....

DomaCom’s crowd-funding campaign to purchase the Kidman Station has received a welcome boost with support from an SMSF administration provider....

Global share strategies beat their Australian counterparts on average, with the median manager returning 12.7 per cent on an unhedged basis....

AMP’s existing self-managed super fund brands will now operate as sub-brands of SuperConcepts, with Natasha Fenech as its CEO....

ASIC vows to continue scrutiny of margin lending after finding issues around double-geared margin loans....

Industry funds have regained their investment performance ascendancy on the back of their heavier exposures to unlisted assets. ...

New Roy Morgan research confirms that Australians still aren’t making genuine plans for their retirement until it is almost too late....

Many debt management firms are front-loading fees to increase consumers’ commitment through sunk costs, an ASIC report reveals....

Australia’s top three ETF providers hold almost 80 per cent of the sector’s FUM, but new entrants are also making their mark, research reveals....

Fintech start-up Suitebox has been crowned as the winner of KPMG’s global Fintech Innovation Challenge, receiving recognition in the mobile category....

New research has confirmed that as Australians increasingly adopt financial services technology, their loyalty to major bank and insurance brands is waning....

Using superannuation is not a solution to plug Budget holes related to student debt, AIST believes....

The current crop of robo-advice tools available to advisers are limited and “devoid of personalisation” according to Intiger Asset Management founder, Mark Fisher....

Federal Treasurer, Scott Morrison, is refusing to rule in or out the use of superannuation to pay down HECS debt....

Advisers need to start preparing for changes to the way property leases will be treated on their balance sheets from 2019, an accountancy firm warns....

Australian banks will need to adopt a forward-looking approach and move to leverage new technologies to counter new risk and regulatory threats, according to a new study....

Confidence is growing among Australia’s small to medium-sized financial services sector business, despite difficult business, economic or industrial conditions, a report ...

Spring FG has outlined its broad timetable for the roll-out of franchised wealth management branches....

Financial planners should offer tailored licensing regimes with certain authorisations to accountants instead of trying to shoehorn them into the planner model, The Fold ...

Federal Treasurer, Scott Morrison signals an end to super as a vehicle for “tax free inheritance pools”....