Former general manager of policy, Dante De Gori, has officially commenced his role as chief executive of the FPA, taking over from Mark Rantall....

Former Telstra chair, Catherine Livingstone, has been appointed to the Board of the Commonwealth Bank....

Nikko AM appoints experienced Mark de Vries as its new Chief Risk Management Officer....

IOOF appoints former iShares managing director, Mark Oliver, as General Manager, Distribution....

Equity Trustees Corporate Trustee Services restructures management team in pursuit of more focused strategy....

ANZ’s exchange traded fund joint venture has made a key business development appointment covering the southern states....

Investec Australia has made an undisclosed investment in fintech start-up vehicle H2 Ventures....

Boards of ASX-listed companies need to consider the value their chief executive delivers for investors and not benchmarks when setting their salary, AMP believes....

A US study showed female investors felt misunderstood by their advisers while stereotypes about their investment indecisiveness still prevailed. ...

Following high demand for advice for both super and non-super related investments, UniSuper has partnered with PKF Melbourne to give specialist tax advice....

The Parliament has passed key amendments to the FOFA legislation extending fee disclosure statement and opt-in renewals to 60 days....

ANZ has undertaken a major shake-up of its wealth business with the announcement of the departure of Joyce Phillips....

Three financial services licensees have removed the term “independent” from their website and marketing material after ASIC found they received commissions and volume-bas...

To support the growth of its business First State Super has changed its custodian to State Street, from J.P. Morgan....

Australian SMSF software provider, Class, has surpassed a total of 100,000 billable portfolios on its cloud platform....

A partnership between IRESS and netwealth will provide advisers with “straight-through processing” and decreasing back office inefficiencies through XPLAN software integr...

A significant proportion of S&P/ASX200-listed companies need to improve their reporting of sustainability factors, as investors increasingly consider ESG risks....

Advisers are set to gain access to new research that will enable them to make investments based on funds’ handling of ESG risks. ...

Over 70 per cent of Australians who want to retire within the next five years have not saved enough, according to a HSBC report....

Perpetual Private has entered into a partnership with a law firm aimed at helping accountants navigate the firm’s full licensing offer....