Zurich Financial Services Australia is upgrading its Adviser Flipchart app....

Investors are being urged to follow market neutral or long-short strategies as volatility and low interest rates hamper returns....

A new SoA tool will cut the time it takes accountants to produce documents by 80 per cent....

Planners looking to buy a practice are taking advantage on discounts being offered on businesses with older client-bases, a report reveals....

The Federal Treasurer, Scott Morrison, has firmed up speculation that ASIC will be a net beneficiary of more Budget funding to address problems in the banking sector....

New educational standards and the impact of losses during the GFC and on the ASX could see adviser numbers drop in the short-to-medium-term, according to the AFA....

A senior superannuation industry executive has urged that fund members only be entitled to full tax concessionality on the amount needed to fund a comfortable retirement....

One-third of non-aligned female planners feel their biggest salary impediment is their gender, according to a survey....

A Queenslander who promoted a non-existent investment fund has had his ban from financial services cut by 25 per cent....

ETF provider, VanEck, responds to consumer demand with two new income focused products. ...

Economic growth, technological disruption and social and geopolitical instability are pushing investors into dangerous territory, BlackRock says....

Ibbotson Associates Australia rebrands and changes name to Morningstar IM....

“Alternatives have grown in acceptance and popularity as a new asset class,” according to IOOF chief investment officer, Stephen Merlicek. ...

Industry fund, AMIST Super has looked beyond the conventional array of asset consultants and apppointed US-based firm, Cambridge Associates....

Asset manager AllianceBernstein warns that the short-term outlook for China has become increasingly risky. ...

Chicago-based real estate specialist, Heitman, has been exiting some of its Australian investments ahead of a new accumulation phase. ...

Money would be better spent on the corporate regulator to tackle issues facing financial advice rather than pinpointing those issues in a Royal Commission, the AFA said....

Non-aligned female planners are not earning more than $189,999, compared to 18 per cent of aligned planners that do....

FOS personnel dominate CommInsure’s Claims Review Panel while ASIC is proving integral to the appointment of an independent expert to review denied claims....

Financial planners working in Australia’s retail banking sector are not feeling their paymasters’ love, the Money Management Salary Survey reveals....