Women are more worried than men about their finances and lack confidence in their ability to retire comfortably, according to a whitepaper by Mortgage Choice and CoreData...
The Banking and Finance Oath has launched its first ever ad campaign to mobilise a higher standard of ethics in the industry....
Leading financial advisory firm, Dixon Advisory, has backed measures announced as part of tonight’s Federal Budget to give older Australians more financial flexibility. ...
The Net Promoter Score for the Big Four is sitting at minus 1.6 for the six months to this February, significantly below the latest rating of 23.2 for banks outside of th...
Despite talks of a bear market returning, the All Ordinaries Index has continued to surprise Wealth Within’s chief analyst, Dale Gillham, who said the Index has remained ...
The use of the term ‘general advice’ may finally be ending after a finding by ASIC that the division between personal and general advice confused consumers, according to ...
The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has unveiled key tweaks to superannuation policy – allowing those aged 65 and 66 to make voluntary contributions without the work t...
When you’re reasonably young and relatively health-aware, it can be easy to think that good diet and regular exercise are your best protections against ill-health. The tr...
The Federal Opposition has signalled it has little or no sympathy for advisers who have purchased books of trailing commissions and believes such people have failed to do...
Former UBS small cap trio, Stephen Wood, Victor Gomes and David Haddad, have joined Fidante Partners....
The Federal Government has delivered what it is describing as the largest personal income tax since the Howard Government....
The Government has committed to paying unpaid Financial Ombudsman Service determinations impacting consumers and small businesses up to $30.7 million....
The Government has confirmed its funding promises with respect to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority....
The financial services industry has delivered the Budget a muted response in circumstances where the Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, had announced most of the Government’s fi...
Accounting firm, Crowe Horwath, has changed its name to that of its parent company, Findex. ...
BT has launched a new online portal for life insurance clients, offering an online hub focused on health and wellbeing....
With the Government last night announcing the Federal Budget is in a $7.1 billion surplus, Martin Currie’s chief investment officer, Reece Birtles, expects consumer spend...
A positive budget outlook should spur important long-term policy direction, according to the Actuaries Institute....
The Financial Planning Association has welcomed last night’s Federal Budget, but cautioned that using ASIC’s industry funding model to pay for implementing Royal Commissi...
The SMSF Association has welcomed the Government’s proposed changes regarding calculating ECPI and increasing the age where the work test for making contributions to supe...
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...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...