Only a fifth of Australian workers with no financial plan or professional advice reported feeling financially fit, yet 60 per cent have never used a planner. ...

While there has been a 46 per cent uptake on cloud software year-on-year planners are still concerned over security and migration, IT on Cloud believe....

Hub24 has announced its acquisition of its technology partner, Agility Applications....

Robo-advice is on the rise but the latest research from Investment Trends suggests it will be mostly positive for financial advisers....

Charging commissions for life/risk advice may be more professional than a fee-for-service model as they were only paid if advisers achieved a claim result for clients, Sy...

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A management shake-up at AMP has seen three of its senior executive exit as the firm looks for short-term performance delivering longer-term growth....

The Insurance Council of Australia has appointed QBE Group COO, Colin Fagen, as its new chairman....

CFSGAM has recruited a former Origin Energy executive to its unlisted infrastructure asset management team....

Former Shadforth Tasmania head, James Louw has returned to Morningstar as the director of institutional business development....

AllianceBernstein (AB) has welcomed the addition of its managed volatility equities fund to Lonsec’s core model portfolios....

Stockspot has chosen Class Portfolio to deliver investment and a tax reporting solution to its clients, as well as advisers in the Stockspot Partner Program....

NAB has appointed Stephen Poole as the new general manager of its Meritum Financial Group....

Investors should be eyeing high yield and emerging market bonds, while they should stay away from Treasury bonds, according to Eaton Vance....

ASIC’s extension of fee and cost disclosure requirements for super trustees will assist the industry to increase transparency, ASFA believes....

An eight-year study has shown that female fund managers have continued to be underrepresented across the globe....

The changes to super rules, passed by the Government, would force Australian retirees to rethink their retirement income approach in 2017, according to a study by a fund ...

The Australian Stockbrokers Association has renamed itself the Stockbrokers and Financial Advisers Association and sought endorsement as a code monitoring body under the ...

The Life Insurance Framework bill has passed through the House of Representatives unopposed, even as a Liberal Party member expressed concerns over possible unintended co...

ASIC has permanently banned Christopher John Griggs from providing financial services for his dishonest conduct....