The Australian Council of Trade Unions believes the Government’s superannuation exposure draft legislation is an ‘attack’ on working people and their retirement savings. ...

The industry funds-owned IFM Investors is suggesting that the Liberal-dominated House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics is unreasonably singling it out f...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is insisting it has empathy for financial planning licensees because it has both former advisers and paraplanners in ...

The corporate regulator alleges the financial technology firm’s brochure on self-managed superannuation funds was misleading. ...

Investors should not forget that while there has been a rebound of the Chinese economy from the COVID-19 pandemic, it still has its risks of being an emerging market, deV...

The State Street Investor Confidence index finished 2020 with an increase of 13.3 points in December, reaching the level of 104.1 from November’s revised reading of 90.8....

Almost three-quarters of fund professionals expect to see consolidation of the superannuation industry this year in a bid to reduce costs, according to Calastone....

The introduction of design and distribution obligations this October will make it even more important for firms to have strict data management processes in place, accordi...

The Government needs to address underperformance in the superannuation system before stapling of super accounts begins, according to the Australian Institute of Superannu...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is arguing that obtaining professional indemnity insurance is not as big a problem for financial planning licensees a...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is claiming licensees shouldn’t be needing to remediate clients beyond a seven-year horizon, but has left open the qu...

Willis Towers Watson has announced the appointment of Lee Garvey as its new head of financial solutions for Australia and New Zealand. ...

Non-US regions stocks having attempted to dominate the US, growth and technology themes across the global equity sector, according to BetaShares....

A Democratic win in Georgia will ‘rattle’ US stockmarkets as the White House, Senate and House of Representatives could all be under Democratic control for the first time...

Advisers need to understand the types of risk specific to retirees and implement strategies to minimise the risk of outliving their savings as two-thirds do not believe t...

There were a further 21,000 superannuation members who applied for the early release of their super in the week before the scheme ended, with 31% representing repeat appl...

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has denied its chief executive, Stephen Glenfield, deliberately misled a Parliamentary Committee about the public ava...

Australia and New Zealand will remain attractive as real estate investment destinations for cross-border investors in the coming year, according to real estate consultanc...

Australia and New Zealand will remain attractive as real estate investment destinations for cross-border investors in the coming year, according to real estate consultanc...

Australia is likely to return to pre-pandemic growth by the third quarter of 2021 as long as there is an effective combination of a COVID-19 vaccine and therapeutic treat...