Planners should expect FASEA’s final standards by Christmas, with the Authority’s chief executive, Stephen Glenfield, today saying that his intention was to have them fin...

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has confirmed that the final exam introduced as part of its education reforms would be one exam for all advisers rega...

The Financial Planning Association has sought to calm advisers nervous about FASEA’s reforms at its Professionals Congress this morning, promising that “we will help you ...

Clime Investment Management has launched further into the planning space with Clime Private Wealth aimed squarely at high net worths....

A new information-sharing initiative announced as part of the Women’s Economic Security Package will improve the Family Court’s visibility of the superannuation assets of...

The frequent contact between ASIC commissioners and the chief executives and boards of the institutions they regulate is purely professional, ASIC’s chair has told the Ro...

UBS Asset Management has announced that its Emerging Markets Equity Fund has been added to its global offering....

Scientific Beta’s ESG filter has helped to exclude Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi from its environmental, social and governance indices....

Australian broad cap equities prove a pretty strong case for active management, with only one exchange-traded fund sitting in the top quartile for the year to last month’...

Market conditions and changing investor preferences are creating new challenges for hedge fund managers’ capital raising ambitions, EY says....

Ignition Advice has been nominated by the Banking Technology Awards as a finalist in the category Best Use of IT in Private Banking/Wealth Management....

APRA figures have shown an 11.5 per cent year-on-year rise in the Australian life insurance industry’s net policy revenue to $17.9 billion in the September 2018 quarter....

Licensees will be responsible for approving 70 per cent of the continuing professional development hours undertaken by advisers under the new Financial Adviser Standards ...

New analysis from Rice Warner has suggested that the removal of volume-based adviser fees would challenge superannuation just as much as it would challenge planning firms...

The Finance Sector Union has called for the current move to professionalisation to be extended beyond just planners, but has warned that there are issues with an industry...

Authorised advisers need to make sure they’re on ASIC’s Financial Advisers Register by the end of the year, before new professional standards take effect, or risk being t...

The Royal Commission has been told that CommInsure was concerned that a $300,000 ‘community benefit payment’ might be perceived as ‘pay-off’ to the Australian Securities ...

The chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, James Shipton wants the Bank Executive Accountability Regime extended to the broader financial servi...

ASIC chair, James Shipton, has come under fire from the Royal Commission, which seemed dissatisfied with how the regulator intended to prove its performance improves goin...

The Royal Commission has asked ASIC why recent new senior level roles were all filled by internal candidates from a limited pool, amid questions about the regulators’ gov...