AccountantsIQ has stuck up for accountants giving financial advice against the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority, urging that the education standards impos...

Financial services firm Morrows has announced a strategic merger with accounting, wealth management, auditing and superannuation firm, MSI Ragg Weir....

Money Management looks at what the second quarter of 2018 held for investors, and what they should have avoided. ...

Commonwealth Bank has completed the sale of its life insurance business in New Zealand to AIA Group Limited....

A letter from the Royal Commission to some superannuation funds suggests that the commercial and remuneration relationships between banks, corporate super funds and finan...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has taken action against Refocus Financial Group in the Queensland Supreme Court....

TAL has announced registrations are open for the 2018 TAL Adviser Roadshows, held between 1 August and 14 September. ...

Nikko Asset Management has augmented its China equity capability with additional resources based in Shenzhen and Hong Kong....

Dr Teagan Altschwager has been appointed to steer a review into how to help Australian retirees live well, not just longer....

Nuveen affiliate TH Real Estate has appointed Jack Sibley as an innovation and technology strategist, a role in which he will focus on leveraging innovation and technolog...

Grant Thornton Australia has promoted ten new partners and three new principals, adding to the 13 partner hires made over the last 12 months. ...

AMP Capital has announced Kylie O’Conner would join its real estate team as chief operating officer, and Merran Edwards would assume the newly-created role, head of inter...

Brisbane-based financial services firm, MGD, has announced the appointment of Stanley Feng to the partnership of the firm....

Mid-tier accounting firm, Bentleys, has appointed former head of the Sydney Stock Exchange, Tony Sacre, as its new chief executive officer. ...

The business registry fees collected by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission do not fund its regulatory work despite media coverage saying otherwise, Kell...

Financial services firm, Hartleys, has transferred to Praemium’s investment platform to manage its client portfolios....

Macquarie has announced that its wealth arm will switch off all grandfathered commissions next year, impacting an estimated 17,000 client accounts....

More self-managed super fund trustees and operators are expected to invest in international stock markets, according to Monex Securities Australia....

Plato Investment Management has started an online petition to maintain Australia’s dividend imputation system, warning that proposed changes will discriminate against sel...

After suffering a drop at the beginning of the second quarter of 2018, bonds have managed to pick themselves up, data from FE Analytics shows. ...