APRA could have identified poorly performing superannuation funds sooner and before the Royal Commission if it had actually collected and used the right data, according t...
MLC Wealth has looked to increase cut-through with advisers and their clients by delivering administration fee cuts of up to 50 per cent....
Money Management’s survey confirms the likelihood that more than a quarter of financial planners will exit the industry as a result of the Financial Adviser Standards and...
SuperConcepts has announced Adrian Urquhart will be its interim chief executive officer, effective 1 February, replacing Natasha Fenech. ...
Clime Investment Management has appointed Yellow Brick Road’s former wealth executive as its new general manager, private wealth and distribution....
ASIC has entered a change of the responsible entity for an Aurora Fund in its record of registration, despite submissions made by Aurora Funds Management to the contrary,...
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has decided to keep the countercyclical capital buffer for authorised deposit-taking institutions on hold at zero per cent....
Money Management looked at the performance of equity funds to see which funds hit the bottom quartile for the first time in a decade....
Industry Super Australia has told a key Parliamentary Committee that advisers can’t necessarily be trusted when it comes to giving advice around the selection of post-ret...
A number of corporate superannuation mandates may change hands if particular companies are named and shamed in the Royal Commission’s final report, with serious contingen...
Australian investment manager, IPO Wealth, has appointed Ewan Laughlin as chief executive officer....
Four out of five advisers believe that the Best Interests Duty has been necessary to raise industry standards, with the compliance regime improving their confidence in th...
The Association of Financial Advisers has warned its members to brace for some adverse outcomes from next Monday’s final report of the Royal Commission, including the pos...
The Institute of Public Accounts has commended the Government’s decision to extend the instant asset write-off for small businesses to 2020, but argues it should be a per...
Former International Federation of Accountants president, Rachel Grimes, has joined the Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards board as director. ...
AdviserLogic has joined the RegTech space and launched AdviserLogic Dashboards, which would allow AFSLs to monitor the compliance of their advisers. ...
Equity Trustees has announced it has been appointed as responsible entity and trustee of the Federation Alternative Assets Trust....
Big industry fund AustralianSuper has expressed concern about the consequences for superannuation funds if they are asked to offer members complex post-retirement product...
Money Management’s survey of financial advisers has revealed that 25 per cent of respondents have degrees that don’t appropriately measure-up under the Financial Adviser ...
The founder and former managing director and chief executive of the SMSF Association, Andrea Slattery, is the latest appointment to the AMP board as a non-executive direc...
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...