Determinations by the Government’s new Australian Financial Complaints Authority should be open to appeal to the courts, according to a submission received by the Senate ...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has permanently banned a former Financial Wisdom and Commonwealth Financial Planning authorised representative....

The Board of Commonwealth Bank-owned ASB Bank has announced the departure of its chief executive and managing director, effective March 2018....

The Australian Bankers’ Association has criticised the Western Australian government over reports of a possible bank levy to balance GST....

Equip Super has more than halved the maximum asset-based pension admin fee to $750 per annum and intends to deliver more savings for members thanks to its merger....

AMP Capital has added telecommunications asset to its infrastructure debt portfolio....

IOOF has completed the acquisition of National Australia Trustees Limited by its trustee business, AET, after entering into an agreement with NAB in June....

For a limited time, TAL’s Accelerated Protection series is going policy fee-free...

Senior Australians are putting the need to have an adequate retirement income ahead of leaving anything to their kids, according to new research....

The trade union movement has closed ranks to defend industry funds from the Government’s ‘choice’ legislation seeking to change the default funds regime....

The Australian Bankers’ Association has warned that extending the BEAR to cover bank-owned wealth and insurance businesses risks making them uncompetitive....

European-based Natixis Asset Management has taken a majority stake in Investors Mutual....

Industry fund, First Super has appointed Aboriginal elder, Tim Chatfield as an independent director on its board, effective from 22 September....

Former Centrepoint executive, Mat Walker has been appointed by Praemium as its new head of product and marketing....

Former Legg Mason executive, Anthony Pesutto has been appointed as the new marketing and communications manager at Zenith....

QMV founder, Mark Vaughan has succeeded fellow founder Michael Quinn as managing director of superannuation consulting and technology firm, QMV....

Former Turnbull adviser, Tim Short is part of a new partnership offering Australian institutional investors clean energy infrastructure exposure....

The Financial Planning Association of Australia has signalled its intention to make financial capability a focus point for World Financial Planning Day....

Northern Trust has completed its strategic acquisition of UBS Asset Management’s fund services units in Luxembourg and Switzerland....

Private infrastructure debt delivers better risk-adjusted returns than corporate debt when it is narrowly and correctly defined, according to the EDHEC Infrastructure In...