The level of board diversity is associated with higher returns and can be a predictor of better financial outcomes, according to new research by AXA Investment Managers. ...

Insight Investment’s Diversified Inflation Plus Fund has been added to the Netwealth platform....

Emerging market returns have been a cause for concern over recent weeks but Lonsec believes investors may be able to take advantage of the volatility inherent in the sect...

Individuals spent an astonishing $29.5 billion on health-related expenses in 2015-16, according to Zurich, and helping clients better understand the risk of illness could...

Money Management has scoped the emerging markets sector to find three funds that have sat in the top quartile for the last five years. ...

Life/risk insurers have been placed on notice that the Royal Commission may recommend measures to hold them responsible for psychiatric injury inflicted on clients by cla...

Life/risk insurers self-reported just 23 breaches of the Financial Services Council’s code of conduct to the Life Code Compliance Committee....

A review by the regulator has described delays by financial institutions in reporting, addressing and remediating significant breaches as “unacceptable”....

The specialist commercial property lender says small to medium-size enterprises in the retail sector should always think carefully about acquiring property for the dual p...

Tectonic economic shifts which dominate the global macro-economic landscape will favour active management, according to SG Hiscock....

The Financial Services Council has called on financial institutions to improve their response time to incidents, saying that action was urgently needed if they were going...

Financial services education group, the Portfolio Construction Forum, has urged the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority to move its proposed CPD regime beyon...

Licensees should be required to annually report the make-up of financial services practice income so that the extent of grandfathered commissions can be properly assessed...

Major superannuation industry body, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia, says that grandfathered planning commissions should be outlawed after a 12-month...

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Better targeting those with future social support needs could deliver big budget savings and better outcomes for those within Australia’s social security system, the Actu...

The Federal Government has released for discussion legislation which will significantly increase both the jail terms and financial penalties which can be applied for cont...

The Royal Commission has released a policy document which has directly questioned the future of life/risk commissions and raised the issue of banning direct insurance via...

Stone & Chalk has appointed a new chairman and suite of new board members as it phases out of start-up and into scale-up....

AMP Capital has completed its $440 million divestment from tobacco securities and become a founding signatory to the Tobacco-Free Finance Pledge....