MTAA Super chief executive Leeanne Turner will lead the combined fund and Dr Ross Barry has been appointed as its chief investment officer....

Investors are being over-optimistic with their return expectations and advisers need to manage these expectations to realistic levels, according to Schroders. ...

The country saw strongest outperformance of family-owned businesses in Asia Pacific versus non-family owned businesses. ...

The rapid growth of China, set to become the world’s largest economy, will necessitate a ‘divorce’ from the MSCI Emerging Markets index as its weighting surpasses 40%....

The fund manager is concerned on how the buy now, pay later trend will behave in a full market cycle as the companies are not profitable yet. ...

Banks are ‘confusing’ as they look cheaper now relative to any period of history but the outlook is not great for the sector, according to Airlie Funds Management....

Despite Australia now officially being in a recession, it could be the best time to invest as the market prices in “doom and gloom”, according to BetaShares. ...

There are two tech stocks that have seen performance of over 100% over the past year and the Australian information technology sector has lead markets in August with 15% ...

Equity, bond and multi-asset sectors all saw high volumes of 1 Crown-rated funds in the latest FE fundinfo Crown Ratings rebalance. ...

Legg Mason Martin Currie, Bentham, PIMCO and BMO Global Asset Management each saw a fund drop from 5 Crowns to 1 in the latest FE fundinfo Crown rating rebalance. ...

One of the funds has managed to capitalise on the COVID-19 pandemic with its focus on online shopping. ...

Financial advisers are working harder and finding it harder to recruit new clients as they struggle to deal with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

AMP Limited is continuing to pay a price for controversy and key personnel instability with research and ratings house, Zenith, telling clients that it has placed more th...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is backing the Federal Court’s precedent in the IOOF case on how and when superannuation funds can use member reserve...

Outsider was somewhat amused when a little-known Queensland Liberal National Party backbencher decided to take on two former first-graders – former Labor Prime Ministers ...

Outsider feels sure that financial advisers will be heartened by the news that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has 2,237 employees and that over the ...

Outsider confesses that a number of years ago he, or someone purporting to be him, described Equity Trustees’ somewhat peripatetic Harvey Kalman as “Harvey World Travel”....

A number of smaller competitors are coming for Afterpay’s buy now, pay later crown and reporting strong share price gains in the process....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched Federal Court action against Dixon Advisory over best interests duty failures relating, in part, to Evan...

Working as a director in financial services can come with regulatory risk, writes David Court, so it is important to know how to manage those responsibilities and avoid a...