Contango Income Generator has appointed Andrew MacDonald to chair and implement cuts to director remuneration....

IOOF has promoted Western Pacific’s Nathan Stanton to the role of chief executive of Bridges Financial Services....

Liberty Financial has promoted its chief operating officer, James Boyle, to the chief executive role....

Contango Asset Management has recruited UBS’s legal, risk and compliance expert, Hari Morfis, as its new general counsel....

The Institute of Management Account Professionals has expanded its board at the same time as seeing its chairman, Toby Potter, move to a full-time role....

AMP Capital has undertaken key changes within its Global Equities and Fixed Income teams with a series of promotions and departures....

Parametric has launched an emerging market fund for Australian superannuation funds which used a disciplined, rules based, engineered approach to emerging markets. ...

A survey has showed that Australians, particularly men, have continued to struggle to keep up to date on credit card repayments. ...

Adviser Ratings has signed a referral deal with Small Business First to provide small businesses access to financial planners who would accept referrals from them. ...

The latest SuperRatings data confirm that the election of Donald Trump adversely impacted super returns....

Decimal has appointed Promontory Australasia to review its digital advice compliance....

Fortnum has appointed former ANZ wealth managing director of advice and open market channels, Neil Younger, as its managing director as the group prepared to launch an ex...

The Productivity Commission has been told under 25s may be better off not going immediately into the superannuation system and instead be directed to a Government-run def...

The rising popularity of index funds and ETFs has brought with it a step-up in the debate on the merits of passive versus active investing. Often lost in this discussion,...

A law firm has warned AFSLs and credit licence applicants can expect ASIC to take a tougher approach to assessing their applications but the exact requirements were not c...

CommSec has released a statement following a $200,000 fine from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

Watermark’s market neural fund, not correlated to the share market, has already raised $40 million as part of its IPO. ...

Australian mortgage holders are borrowing within their means and are taking the initiative by getting ahead of their debt, a survey has found....

Financial software firm, IRESS has joined its software, XPLAN, with the Financial Synergy platform Acurity to launch a new advice solution for super funds....

New investors benefited more from the positive results from capital markets while older investors worried about the future, Australian Unity’s index showed....