Several funds will benefit from holding onto the buy now/pay later firm as it is set to be part of the largest corporate acquisition in Australian history. ...

Maintaining education and professional development requirements will make it hard for women to stay in the industry if they need to take time off to start a family, accor...

Existing clients should be asked whether they see value in financial advice reforms and whether they are happy to be paying more for those protections, the Association of...

North Coast Financial Services’ director Timothy Parry and officer Damian Price have been banned by the corporate watchdog after they were found to have breached their du...

Investing with an ESG focus in mind, writes David Smith, is no longer a ‘nice to have’ for investors and can lead to better performance over the long-term....

Tools such as text mining of shareholder reports are used to determine if a firm is making unsubstantiated claims about its ethical and environmental practices. ...

The ongoing global recovery and accommodative policies of major central banks should support risk markets in the near term, according to Morgan Stanley....

Markets are being overly pessimistic about the future of retail, according to Airlie, as there are opportunities still in play for retail growth after the pandemic....

The life insurer’s board has assessed that it will “not be appropriate” to repay JobKeeper funds after its 2020 calendar year net profit declined $4.6 million from the pr...

The ‘big end of town’ which caused the regulatory burden should be forced to pay their share of levy costs, according to The Advisers Association, even if they have left ...

While the authority argues the high pass rate shows it is an achievable exam for “competent” advisers and has been a boost for consumer confidence in the industry, data s...

John Shuttleworth has been appointed to lead Centrepoint Alliance in its next phase of growth as it focuses on expanding its offering and digitising key services....

Nathalie Wallace has been appointed from a Natixis affiliate and will be responsible for growth in all aspects of sustainable investment....

ANZ has appointed former Colonial First State Global Asset Management executive, Christine O’Reilly, as a non-executive director, bringing the firm’s female board represe...

Chris Durack will leave the firm at the end of October after a decade and Susan Soh will be the sole head of Schroders’ APAC business....

Jo-Anne Bloch has been appointed as independent non-executive director of Colonial First State Investments Limited and Avanteos Investments Limited....

The opposition has backed the recommended two-year review of the bill as it can’t be “set and forget” and the Government’s management of standards reform has been a “trai...

Giving once-off advice is still costly for advisers to provide and will not solve the pricing issue which has come out of the rising cost of advice....

If there was an Olympics Games for failure, the implementation of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority would be a finalist, according to a Labor MP....

A review from the corporate regulator of the six largest financial services institutions shows they have collectively paid or offered $1.86 billion in compensation for fe...