Over 30% fewer superannuation fund members have been revealed as having life insurance and total and permanent disability cover as a result of the Government’s successive...

The Financial Planning Association has told the Australian Securities and Investments Commission the same reference checking protocols that apply to financial advisers sh...

Schroders has changed the objectives of its Real Return funds as it believes market conditions have made it more difficult to achieve the funds’ targets for investors....

Navigator Global Investments has announced the acquisition of six minority ownership interests in alternative asset managers from investment funds managed by Dyal Capital...

The global investment fintech firm has launched pControl Asset Allocation to help APAC institutional asset allocators....

If the US was put on the same environment, social, and governance playing field as Europe it would open up the sector and lead to strong inflows, deVere chief executive N...

The demand for the Listed Investment Company and Listed Investment Trust sector holds steady despite a decline of 0.6% in the sector’s market capitalisation over the last...

While an appropriate superannuation guarantee is between 9.5% to 12% setting the levy is complex, the Actuaries Institute believes....

Love him or loathe him, Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp represents a good opportunity for Prime Value’s Richard Ivers in his Emerging Opportunities fund due to the recovering p...

Ian Knox has stepped down as non-executive chair of Paragem in the wake of HUB24 and Easton Investment Management completing their key transaction....

The best-performing fund in the Australian equities sector for 2020 focused on pre-IPO activity....

The Federal Court has ordered that AMP provide key documents around its buyer of last resort decision-making as part of the discovery process attaching to the class actio...

Financial planning group Centrepoint Alliance has moved to resume paying dividends while looking for scale through new strategic opportunities....

Relative value looks more finely balanced at the start of this year with opportunities for positive total returns and valuations point to the potential for higher prices ...

The announcement of an additional $100 billion bond buying programme was a ‘firecracker’ by the Reserve Bank of Australia on Tuesday, surprising economic commentators....

Iran and Russia are likely to be top of US President Biden’s foreign policy agenda as he has “no pressing desire” to continue the trade talks negotiated between China and...

The Australian small and mid-cap sector outperformed the broader Australian equity sector as smaller growth stocks benefitted from the market recovery....

The transfer balance cap indexation, the total super balance thresholds, and access to information for advisers need to be addressed to simplify the retirement income sys...

By largely dispensing with external investment advisers, big building and construction industry fund, Cbus has claimed a saving to members of around $135 million a year....

The delivery of financial advice is becoming increasingly expensive and the Government needs to review the ASIC levy in circumstances where it has been rising exponentia...