The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has acknowledged the two class actions against Colonial First State that were filed last week....

AMP Capital’s global chief investment officer of equities, David Allen, is poised for growth as he completes a three-year process to revamp the firm’s equity division, wi...

The Financial Advisers Standards and Ethics Authority guidance for its code of ethics, which comes into effect on 1 January, 2020, has been released....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s SMSF factsheet contains ‘an array of seemingly deliberate inaccuracies’ and should be withdrawn, according to econo...

Low-debt companies can help drive consistent returns for environmental, social and governance investors, according to research from Hejaz Financial Services....

Melinda He has been appointed as manager – liquid assets to assist with the equity, fixed income and liquids alternatives side of the portfolio....

Stuart Develyn will move to a new role, while Michael Pease, general manager of operations, would take on both roles as part of the company’s restructuring....

Emma Halley has been appointed as head of investment process, multi-asset and macro for Aviva Investors....

Super funds should tailor their portfolios for pension phase investors to take advantage of after-tax alpha....

AMP Capital has raised US$6.2 billion for its fourth infrastructure debt strategy, its largest closed-ended fund yet....

Cloud-based self-managed superannuation funds administrator Class is looking beyond SMSFs towards the trust sector to accelerate growth....

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the European Securities and Markets Authority regarding financial benchm...

SMSF members are saving well above the comfortable retirement standards, according to Accurium....

Seven different regulators combined with three different complaints and disciplinary bodies mean that financial planners have been left sinking in a regulatory swamp....

The Financial Planning Association has strongly urged the removal of the general advice exemption for financial product issuers because it undermines best interests....

The Association of Financial Advisers has accused the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics of Authority of using its code of ethics approach to ‘create its own laws, wa...

The ‘buy now pay later’ market has delivered mixed results for the Lennox Capital Partners’ managers....

Financial Services Council chief executive Sally Loane has called on policymakers to implement a ‘default once’ system to help superannuation members maintain a single ac...

The Australian Taxation Office has disputed the allegation by the ‘Your Right to Know’ coalition of media outlets which implies that the tax office can take money direct...

A man operated an illegal SMSF and issued an unlawful early release of super funds for 25 people....