Netwealth, has exceeded $10 billion in funds under management following a strong quarterly result....

ASIC has cancelled Lotus Securities AFSL after it breached several of its key obligations. ...

ASIC has commenced civil proceedings against Ben Jayaweera and Growth Plus Financial Group after it contravened its Australian Financial Services licence....

Industry Super Australia claims the major banks are switching customers into under-performing retail super funds via direct sales tactics which bypass planners. ...

Five ipac practices have moved to AMP’s new advice business, AMP Advice....

The delayed LIF start date of 2018 will allow self-employed advisers more time to prepare their businesses for the significant reduction in initial commissions, the AFA b...

Financial services lawyer, Claire Wivell-Plater is warning opponents of the LIF that their obstinacy is risking a total ban on life/risk commissions....

Centrepoint Alliance has acquired RFE Group to support the growth of professional advice firms....

Brisbane-based GCA Financial adviser, Erin Truscott, has been awarded the AFA Rising Star of the Year award for 2016. ...

Antipodes Global Investment Company closed its IPO at $300 million, representing the third largest listed investment company IPO in Australia. ...

The Government needs to take advantage of the growing interest by women in their super by creating the right framework, the SMSF Association believes....

Knowledge-intensive jobs are the biggest hiring trend as skilled, experienced, and educated financial planners are in short supply according to Hays....

Advisers need risk capacity and risk tolerance measures to help clients reach retirement goals, Milliman believes....

ASIC deputy chairman, Peter Kell, has delivered an optimistic assessment of progress in improving the advice culture but has warned of a long journey ahead....

Pressures on margins as well as the introduction of the Future of Financial Advice led Suncorp to the belief that aligned advice was not core to its business....

Advisers must collectively embrace legislative and regulatory change to cope with an increasingly complex advice world that is no longer about selling insurance....

The Government's legislation underpinning the Life Insurance Framework will enter Parliament next week with the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O'Dwyer...

Revenue and Financial Services Minister, Kelly O’Dwyer has warned that the changes to commission structures under LIF could have been harsher without industry consultatio...

It is an exciting time for advisers as they help guide their clients through the complex maze of super to achieve their desired retirement goals, Catherine Chivers writes...

The LICG proposal for a special resolution to force the AFA to oppose the LIF has failed to garner the required support...