Some US$1.9 billion in assets went into Japanese equities over the last week but in Australia, no Japanese equity funds have made a return since the start of the year....
The June quarter has seen global equity funds receive a boost, although the sector average remains negative since the start of the year....
Advisers are underperforming in three areas in the exam: financial advice regulatory and legal requirements, financial advice construction, and applied ethical and profes...
The chair of a key Parliamentary Committee has raised the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s errors within its controversial SMSF factsheet among errors t...
Faced with at least six weeks of Level 4 lockdown, financial advisers in Melbourne need regulatory relief around opt-in and other key client interactions....
The Financial Services Council is pushing a scaled advice model to help offset the exodus of advisers....
Current AMP Capital Real Estate COO Kylie O’Connor has been promoted to head of real estate....
Former financial adviser and director of CFS Private Wealth, Graeme Miller, was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for dishonest conduct. ...
The loans outstanding, which are cumulatively worth $274 billion, have been granted temporary repayment deferrals by deposit -taking institutions. ...
The second lockdown in Melbourne could see the Reserve Bank of Australia needing to cut rates further, after holding at 0.25% yesterday for the fifth consecutive month....
It will transition to computer-based testing for all three levels of the CFA program in 2021 with the transition already beginning for Level 1....
The second lockdown in Melbourne could see the Reserve Bank of Australia needing to cut rates further, after holding at 0.25% yesterday for the fifth consecutive month....
Financial adviser social network, XY Adviser, is launching its first equity crowd fund to allow members to own a piece of the firm. ...
Wealth Today’s parent company, ASX-listed WT Financial Group, sees potential for further improvement on costs side upon completion its exit of surplus office space progra...
New data has revealed the degree to which Self-Managed Superannuation Funds are facing a decade of struggle as the COVID-19 pandemic and associated measures undercuts the...
The Financial Planning Association has launched its 2020 awards with a new category recognising technology and the use of digital delivery....
A more than $1 trillion impact on superannuation assets is being forecast over the next 10 years as industry superannuation funds warn the Government against further exte...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has broken new ground by successfully pursuing a criminal conviction against Pershing Securities over client money of...
Research firm Investment Trends chief executive, Michael Blomfield, has been appointed to the newly-created role....
With many fixed income options yielding less than 0%, core alternatives can provide stable income with a low correlation to equities, writes Pulkit Sharma and Jason DeSen...
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?...