The Commonwealth Bank has put its wealth demerger on hold to allow it time to complete its client remediation processes....

Financial services executives should be paid properly for what they do and rewarded for outstanding performance, but not via commissions, according to a Conference of Maj...

Industry Fund Services believes it may be time to campaign for an expansion of the definition of intrafund advice to give super funds more flexibility....

Blue Sky Alternative Investments has announced the appointment of Joel Cannas its new chief executive officer....

The PIMCO Australian Bond strategy has been announced as the only fixed-interest strategy to earn the highest possible analyst rating from Morningstar....

Metrics Credit Partners has launched a new listed investment trust on the Australian Securities Exchange. ...

Many investors are shying away from European equity markets due to the protracted Brexit negotiations, according to ETF Securities....

TAL Life has taken out AFA’s Life Company of the Year award for the second year in a row at the Association of Financial Advisers’ Life Company of Year Awards....

IRESS’ managing director, Simon Badley, has announced he would step down from his role at the end of June....

Superannuation fund trustees have been warned they will get little sympathy from the regulators if merger talks break down because they did not deal with the tough issues...

Industry Funds Services chief executive, Cath Bowtell has questioned how many independent financial adviser firms will survive in a post-Royal Commission world without cr...

While making full use of member engagement data will involve the use of artificial intelligence, super funds need to remember that positive member advice offerings will s...

The rules and definitions imposed by superannuation funds is core to the barriers to access to super faced by indigenous people....

Two new partners have signed up to Future IM/Pact, a campaign launched last year aimed at attracting more diversity to investment management, bringing the number signator...

The outlook for emerging markets, Chinese equities and Japanese equities is superior to that of US equities, according to global equities investment manager, Hexavest. ...

The Australian exchange-traded fund industry has broken another new record, with a monthly funds under management increase of $2.3 billion, according to the BetaShares’ F...

A major industry body has given the Federal Government’s proposal to increase the maximum number of members in self-managed superannuation funds from four to six....

A former Australian Financial Services authorised representative has been jailed for 10 years for using clients’ funds “as he pleased”....

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has finally cleared the way for higher education providers to seek accreditation of the degree and other courses they...

A Sydney law firm has announced a class action against IOOF based on losses to shareholders resulting from the Royal Commission and the action initiated by the Australian...