Synchron has issued an urgent call for life insurers to clarify responses to the new Unfair Contract Terms regime. ...

The Advisers Association is calling for the big banks who have exited wealth management to be charged a per-adviser exit tax to help defray the costs of the ASIC levy....

Link Group and Switzer Asset Management have re-launched the Switzer High Yield Fund as a quoted managed active exchange-traded fund. ...

Westpac is exiting lenders mortgage insurance by selling the business to Arch Capital with appropriate warranties and indemnities....

CommBank has unveiled its own buy now, pay later service called Commbank BNPL but there are “fatal flaws” in the business, according to Datt Capital’s Emanuel Datt. ...

The high valuations of technology firms could be challenged if inflation is to rise quickly, according to fund managers....

Opportunities in the small-cap space have significantly increased in the last five years as there has been a “sea change” in firms’ ability to invent products that are gl...

T. Rowe Price has increased its weighting to Japan at the expense of Europe as it feels the global trade outlook is a key driver for Japan while Europe is struggling with...

Proactive management allows managers to move beyond traditional active and passive management approaches and capture a wider opportunity set in emerging markets, accordin...

Proactive management allows managers to move beyond traditional active and passive management approaches and capture a wider opportunity set in emerging markets, accordin...

Japanese funds have struggled to outperform the Nikkei 225 with no funds outperforming over three or five years and only one outperforming over the last decade....

In the last four exams, the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has acknowledged that advice documentation is a problem area with exam performance. ...

The Government is continuing to hedge its bets on delivering the scheduled increase in the superannuation guarantee to 10%. ...

The failure of superannuation funds could become a self-fulfilling prophecy if the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority inappropriately applies the proposed superan...

AMP Financial Planning has seen its adviser numbers drop below 800 this week, according to HFS Consulting....

As someone who has had to deal with offshore service providers, Outsider is very interested in the suggestion that paraplanning services can be satisfactorily provided by...

Outsider is pleased that, even though it took too long, the issue of diversity has become an important matter for many financial services firms, on the surface at least....

Make no mistake, Outsider is a big fan of superannuation possibly because he was reporting on it when the Hawke/Keating Government cemented the Prices and Incomes Accord ...

There were five funds in this FE fundinfo Crown Fund Rating rebalance which received the highest ranking in their first-ever rating. ...

Australian small and mid-cap equities had the highest percentage of 5 Crown rated funds in this latest edition of FE fundinfo’s Crown Ratings, representing 17% of the sec...