A “comprehensive” growth plan is required if Australia wants to exit the recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Australian Investment Council. ...

It includes proposals for the approval of degrees, bridging courses, professional designation course work, and the recognition of two credits for existing advisers who ha...

Synchron’s Don Trapnell has renewed his call for specialist life/risk advisers to be held to a different level of educational requirements to advisers providing holistic ...

While environmental, social, and governance integration in a fund might sound good, it often fails to meet investor expectations....

The bill would see the maximum allowable number of members in a self-managed super fund increase from four to six....

Millenium3 chief executive Helen Blackford will lead Lonsdale, Millennium3 and IOOF Alliances, and RI Advice chief executive Peter Ornsby will lead of RI Advice and Consu...

The global small and mid-cap equity sector has been found to have the largest percentage of funds given the top quantitative ratings by FE fundinfo....

In one of the first full-market assessments since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the latest FE fundinfo Crown Ratings rebalance has revealed a picture of outcomes dr...

With IOOF yet to bed down its acquisition of MLC Wealth, competitor licensees have already revealed themselves by seeking to recruit disenchanted and worried advisers....

John Bigatton has been banned by the corporate regulator for providing unlicensed financial product advice in relation to a cryptocurrency platform....

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. ...