Offshoring raises serious concerns about service, data, and job implications and reputation matters more than short-term cost cutting, the Financial Sector Union believes...
The latest Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has confirmed an annual industry-wide rate of return from superannuation is just 7.4% . Is that good enough?...
Chinese and US tech firms are still a necessary part of the best performing global equity funds, although one fund sold off their Alphabet stock....
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority is now on formal notice to answer Senate Estimates questions about the content of Australian Securities and Investmen...
The Federal Court of Australia has found that Dover Financial Advisers made false and misleading statements in client protection policy between September, 2015 and March,...
Perpetual Limited has acquired Priority Life to strength its knowledge and proposition to established wealthy business owners, and medical specialists....
Peter Jianchao Xu has been banned by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for failing to comply with best interests duty....
The bank’s 2019 AGM will not include the grant of equity to chief executive Brian Hartzer and the re-election of Ewen Crouch as a director....
The Financial Planning Association has launched FPA Community, for the 14,000 membership to connect online....
Money Management is seeking to gauge adviser attitudes to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority in the wake of the recent controversy around the code of et...
Industry submissions to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority were calling for a 12-month adviser code exemption just a week before the Australian Securiti...
The Financial Planning Association is canvassing what the industry might look like over the next half-decade including whether a new licensing regime may evolve....
Westpac has announced it will provide a share purchase plan withdrawal option for SPP applicants who applied for the plan prior to the AUSTRAC announcement made earlier t...
Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, trading as CommInsure, has been convicted of 87 counts of life insurance hawking after pleading guilty last week....
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has foreshadowed court action in the wake of a review of fee disclosure statements and renewal notices which uncovere...
Westpac has announced the appointment of a board financial crime committee and Promontory Financial Group to undertake financial crime program review and external account...
As China and Europe tackles fiscal stimulus in the future, there is merit in pursuing opportunities there, according to Antipodes....
Australian investors remain underexposed to China and should reconsider their allocations to be more than zero, according to VanEck....
Emerging market bonds lead the way in the global bond sector for the last year....
In the wake of its money-laundering scandal, most funds that had a high allocation towards the bank managed to recover losses indicating the resilience of big banks....
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?...