The prospect of yet another Parliamentary argument around legislative amendments has again thrown passage of the Government’s extension of the Financial Adviser Standards...

Litigation funders, lawyers and even the ACCC are warning a key Parliamentary that the imposition of licensing and oversight by the Australian Securities and Investment C...

The same Parliamentary Committee which has been applying close scrutiny to industry superannuation funds and their financial planning expenditures is about to turn its at...

Amid persistent reports that National Australia Bank is well down the path of flogging off MLC to private equity, Outsider wonders whether any of the buyers are keeping a...

Pandemic or no pandemic, Outsider has been back at his desk at Money Management Central for a few weeks now and he knows that Mrs O is grateful that he is no longer under...

Mrs O likes to do things old school. No electronic billing, just what comes in the mail....

The price of gold could surpass US$2,000 in the next 12 months, writes Russel Chesler, as more capital is forced into the relative safety of the precious metal. ...

While airports may have come under recent scrutiny, writes Sarah Shaw, the wider infrastructure sector has tremendous opportunity to support the economic recovery....

As companies move to slash or cancel dividends, writes Rudi Minbatiwala, investors who rely on income are having to find alternative sources to generate income for their ...

Mike Taylor writes that the Financial Planning Association may well have identified a key element of the future of the financial advice industry but no one should overloo...

Oksana Patron examines the relationship between fund managers and research houses and whether it has been affected by the recent COVID-19 pandemic. ...

In the second part of his look at client reviews, Astute Wheel’s Hans Egger outlines the steps which should be taken in the actual client review....

There has been a good deal of policy kite-flying around superannuation but it is arguably too important for policy kite-flying. ...

The Senate has passed the omnibus bill containing the extension of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exam time-table, but a question mark remains relat...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has announced it has registered an amending instrument to specify an end date for three COVID-19 related instruments....

Superannuation funds were hit hard in February and March and since then had two strong months with the median balanced superannuation fund rising 2.1% in May on the back ...

The Finance Sector Union of Australia is asking NAB employees to assist in the audit of their pay, to correct the bank’s failure to remunerate staff....

A proposed 38% per adviser increase in fees levied by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has proved too much for the Financial Planning Association whic...

Global asset manager GQG Partners has reduced the management fee on both of its equity funds as the company has grown in size....

The additional conditions will require an independent expert to assess and test controls, systems and processes after the firm deposited client money into unauthorised ba...