CPA Australia Advice has set out the pricing around its accoutants licensing offer with the caveat that it all depends on ASIC granting an AFSL....

NAB restructures to create NAB Private to enable better servicing of high net worth clients....

While fixed property holdings in SMSFs can be an attractive prospect there are many debt and liquidity risks associated and advisers have a number of factors they need to...

The inability by Governments to plug the infrastructure investment shortfall to keep up with economic growth means infrastructure companies need to be part of the solutio...

As finding attractive sources of income is proving to be more and more difficult in the current low cash yield environment, Jon Howie looks at why a multi-asset approach ...

With the overall emerging market sector not producing great returns relying on geographies is insufficient when trying to paint a proper picture, Jassmyn Goh finds. ...

From a financial planning perspective, it is arguable that no sector has generated more change over the past three years than the life/risk sector. ...

It has been a little over a year since Jim Minto retired as chief executive of big insurer TAL. It is 12 months during which he has taken the time to reflect on the shape...

The life/risk sector still offers growth potential to the major insurers but, as Mike Taylor reports, new regulatory and capital requirements have made for a more challen...

Accountants continue to drag their feet with respect to the new limited licensing regime but, as Mike Taylor reports, they risk provoking a regulatory shadow shop. ...

The CFP designation remains a potent marketing tool for the Financial Planning Association but will the Government's legislative amendments around ethics and education ma...

One of the largest independent financial advisory firms, deVere Group said Panama should be commended for its “proactive approach” to boosting its effectiveness and credi...

NAB has appointed its former chief risk officer for product and markets, John Comito, as its new executive general manager for asset servicing....

Explaining the investment opportunities available in the fixed income arena will be key to helping clients generate income in the prevailing low interest world, Nicholas ...

Faced with the competitive investment environment, organisations globally are adapting their operating models to be more agile....

Australians have increasingly become more conservative than their global counterparts, with cash overtaking real estate and equities as the major assets class, according ...

Money Management and Financial Express launch new investment resource for planners and self-directed investors - the Money Management Investment Centre....

The Financial Services Council has urged that the Government separate the process of defining the purpose of superannuation from current short-term tax debate....

Former Cooper Review chairman and Challenger executive, Jeremy Cooper says retirees are being let down by retirement calculators utilising long-term average returns....

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has detailed the lessons learned from the Trio/Astarra collapse while defending the imposition of EUs over court proceeding...