The University of Technology Sydney and PortfolioConstruction Forum have launched Investment Management Research Programme....

Former Financial Planning Association chief executive, Jo-Anne Bloch is returning to Australia to head up Mercer’s recently-acquired Pillar Administration business....

An increasing number of business projects and company expansions have led to an uptick in finance and insurance jobs as companies demand more finance personnel....

Five awards have been presented to talent in Australia’s life insurance industry at a gala dinner held in Sydney last night as part of the Financial Services Council Life...

The Tax Practitioners Board has put out a reminder to financial planners to apply for transitional registration ahead of the 30 June deadline....

The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer has confirmed the Government’s desire to pursue a comprehensive overhaul of the superannuation system....

If you ask investors what type of stocks they would like to invest in, chances are they would answer that they want cheap stocks that have sound businesses and potential ...

A superannuation roundtable has been told that extracting inbuilt advice from superannuation saved billions of dollars....

Latitude Financial Services has priced its inaugural Australia Credit Card master trust transaction....

Financial advisers would need to address and update their client’s self-managed super fund trust deeds to be compliant under the new super reforms. ...

The Federal Government introduced the ASIC industry funding model bill into Parliament on Thursday, which would require entities to fund it rather than taxpayers....

Nikko AM’s Australian fixed income team would be integrated with the firm’s London-based global fixed income team....

ASIC would review issues in the life insurance industry with a culture lens, ASIC told an FSC conference panel....

A Parliamentary Committee has been told it takes an average of only 3.8 days for planners to get permission to recommend a non-APL product to clients....

The industry funds have confirmed the use of ‘risk sharing’ rebates and their intention to become more transparent in publicly disclosing who paid what and to whom....

An additional layer of assistance to help consumers make a claim would add more confusion and would be seen as a way to discourage consumers from making a claim, a panel ...

AMP has restructured its advice business, including the integration of AMP Financial Planning, AMP Advice, AMP Horizons, and AMP Direct, and has announced leadership chan...

The ASIC industry funding model bill failed to differentiate between miscreants and those advisers who did the right thing and provided no discounts for the latter....

All three William Blair Australian funds have been awarded ‘superior’ ratings from research house, SQM Research....

Online share registry business, Registry Direct, would look to raise up to $8 million in an initial public offering....