Financial advisers have been badly served by the disagreements and divisions of past years and should encourage their representative organisations to speak with one voice...

Many Australian fund managers have tried and struggled to enter the New Zealand asset market. But they won’t find meaningful success there, Clayton Coplestone writes, unl...

Freedom Insurance Group has announced the closure of Spectrum Wealth Advisers, terminating agreements with Authorised Representatives....

Ellerston Capital has announced it has acquired a controlling stake in MEC’s manager, Morphic Asset Management....

Laura Dew writes that the Australian Commodities and Energy sector has recovered well since the end of the mining boom, with demand for resources now extending beyond jus...

Mike Taylor writes that the new assistant minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Technology will find some urgent matters sitting in her portfolio ...

As well as offering diversification and an opportunity to benefit from the world’s booming population growth, infrastructure investments can help recession-proof portfoli...

Financial service technology provider, Spitfire has acquired Wealthtrac in a move to increase distribution to self-licensed advisers....

IRESS has announced the acquisition of QuantHouse, an international provider of market data and trading infrastructure....

A leading platform provider has developed a first for the industry, combining data science and technology to identify client behavioural patterns that could indicate a ne...

Sunsuper’s chief executive, Scott Hartley, has announced he will depart the super fund following the appointment of a successor, as he was looking for a new challenge....

Australians should be focused on how to protect their long-term financial security ahead of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s decision on interest rates tomorrow....

The Australian Labor Party has spread the focus on financial services across three members of its Shadow Cabinet team....

Zurich has flagged growing its business on the back of completing its acquisition of ANZ’s OnePath life insurance business....

Spitfire Corporation has appointed its first chief executive officer, signalling the financial technology company’s substantial growth plans following its acquisition of ...

Macquarie has paid a $300,000 penalty to comply with an infringement notice given by the MDP....

AMP Limited has announced that its Group Chief Financial Officer will be staying on until the company manages to complete the sale of its life business to Resolution Life...

Suncorp is facing a class action over the manner in which its superannuation fund paid fees to advisers....

Nikko AM has appointed Linda Luo to the newly created role of credit analyst within its fixed income team....

VanEck’s MSCI World ex Australia Quality exchange traded fund has received a ‘highly recommended’ rating from Lonsec....