Opposition to Labor’s franking credit proposal is not dying down, with the Institute of Public Accountants today saying 95 per cent of its surveyed members did not suppor...

The question at the forefront of many minds in the financial planning industry is whether any individual executives will face prosecution as a result of key decisions on ...

Commonwealth Financial Planning failed to meet its obligations to ASIC under a Court enforceable undertaking, and must now stop charging fees for ongoing services. ...

A former Adelaide financial adviser has pleaded guilty to 29 dishonesty offences committed when he was a planner, after ASIC found that he stole around $4.88 million from...

Alternative investment firm, QIC, has appointed Michael O’Brien as its new managing director, global real estate. ...

The Royal Commission has recommended the deduction of any advice fee other than intra-fund advice from a MySuper account be prohibited, while their deduction from choice ...

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has been advised to conduct supervision of remuneration systems and review its current standards and guidance on the matter...

The cessation of ongoing service fees for salaried planners will cost the Commonwealth Bank $40 million....

The Federal Government has committed to a timetable to ending grandfathering and to entertaining life/risk commissions being further reduced....

The Royal Commissioner, Kenneth Hayne, has made clear he holds boards and senior management responsible for misconduct where it occurred....

Industry superannuation funds have welcomed the Royal Commission’s final report, but financial planning groups are concerned about the outcome for their members....

The corporate regulators and twin peaks of financial services, ASIC and APRA, have been advised to co-regulate and sharpen their teeth. ...

Mike Taylor writes that when the dust settles on the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the banking, Superannuation and Financial Services industry it will be seen to ha...

The recommendations from the Royal Commission final report have helped level the playing field for consumers against big banks and insurers, according to Maurice Blackbur...

Global equities manager, Bell Asset Management, has boosted its institutional and wholesale distribution capabilities with two new appointments. ...

The Financial Services Council has welcomed the release of the Royal Commission’s final report and acknowledges it’s time to get on with the task of strengthening Austral...

The Financial Planning Association has committed to “working proactively” with the Government to address the Royal Commission’s final recommendations and to rebuilding tr...

Further question marks have arisen over AMP Limited’s ability to retain its corporate superannuation mandates in the face of some seriously adverse Royal Commission findi...

Commissioner Kenneth Hayne has clearly identified that product manufacturers very often got much more than advisers from fees for no service while suggesting that serious...

The Royal Commission’s final report has thrown completion of the sale of ANZ’s superannuation businesses into even more serious doubt....