Financial planners should use technology to position money management as a central component of financial advice, according to Moneysoft....

Total assets under management of Australian fund managers grew to $1.3 trillion in 2017, representing a rise of 18.5 per cent....

The negative effects of the bear market are expected to be significantly worse if Labor wins office, according to Wilson Asset Management....

Labor’s proposed franking credits reforms are “flawed, inequitable and fail to meet the policy intent of improving the integrity of dividend imputation for all tax payers...

The Australian Lawyers Alliance wants the Royal Commission to inject more transparency into insurance within superannuation to create awareness of sub-standard policy ter...

A financial services academic has attacked the use by consultants of ‘two-week planners’ to undertake remediation work....

As equity markets charge into the ninth year of a global bull run, we examine the importance of diversification during times of market stress....

Industry funds have used a Productivity Commission report on investment returns to call for regulatory action against underperforming retail superannuation funds....

This Money Management Retirement Incomes Guide reflects the reality that the Australian retirement incomes regime represents a work in progress...

AMP Capital has announced the formation of a new Public Markets business, which will encompass its listed equities, fixed income and multi-asset group capabilities....

AMP Limited has confirmed applying compliance criteria to buyer of last resort arrangements for planners looking to exit the company and the industry....

The Financial Services Council has announced the appointment of Bryce Doherty and Ben Walsh to its board....

Decimal shareholders will meet in early December to sign off on sale of the firm to Sargon Capital....

Australia’s newest asset manager, Federation, has unveiled its senior investment team and launched its strategy....

The Financial Services Council has announced that it will place a moratorium on genetic tests for life insurance from July 2019....

Advisers and their clients have been put on notice to maintain a tighter focus on share trades with the Australian Taxation Office now capable of matching share trades ag...

ANZ’s full-year cash profit has taken a hit as it seeks to move beyond wealth remediation and costs associated with the Royal Commission....

Despite suggestions it had shelved its push for majority independent directors on superannuation fund boards, the Government has made clear the issue remains very much al...

Advisers are snubbing their service providers in pursuit of a self-licensed or boutique model, data from Investment Trends shows. ...

The Commonwealth Bank has sold Colonial First State Global Asset Management to Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation....