Until we have the power to predict exactly how long we’ll live, retirement planning will be complex. Fortunately Challenger make it easier with an expanded range of lifet...
Investors need to be prepared to actively manage rising volatility as markets are facing significant uncertainty as a number of macroeconomic themes collide, according to...
The Financial Services Council has urged Australians who have lost their life insurance policies due to recent flooding to utilise the FSC’s services to help them find ou...
AMP Capital has revised down its 2022 global GDP outlook because of the Russia/Ukraine war while predicting a short-term hit to Australian growth following recent floodin...
The Advisers Association says the Australian Law Reform Commission needs to “tread carefully” with simplifying the Corporations Act and continue to conduct wide-ranging c...
Financial planning remains a male-dominated industry and women are held back by fear from making job moves to senior appointments....
BT has cleared up recent changes to the work test, confirming that it will no longer be required for non-concessional, bring forward non-concessional and small business c...
Money Management finds out where the strongest-performing funds were last month as the conflict in Ukraine rocked markets. ...
A study from Griffith University has recommended financial literacy be taught as a standalone subject to high school-aged students or at the least, through a co-curricula...
For the first time, an adviser’s knowledge of responsible investment is more important to clients than investment returns, according to the Responsible Investment Associa...
Making initial advice tax-deductible would be a “no brainer” move by the Government to encourage people to seek advice, according to adviser Jonathan Wu....
Monash Investors has initiated a short position on Magellan as it is concerned the firm will get significantly smaller in light of its underperformance. ...
Labor would not make any “wholesale changes” to Your Future, Your Super reforms but has instead committed to tweaking aspects of it in response to emergent challenges tha...
The proposed user-pays model from the Australian Financial Complaints Authority followed industry feedback and would see 98% of investment and advice members pay only a $...
Government bonds might not provide the same level of protection that they have traditionally offered portfolios because of inflation and geopolitical turmoil. ...
Platinum International’s fund managers have highlighted the underperformance of growth stocks amid the inflationary environment with the view that markets are currently m...
Accounting and wealth advisory firm, William Buck, has appointed a director to lead its wealth advisory team....
Guy Debelle, deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, is to leave the central bank next week after 25 years. ...
The Financial Planning Association of Australia has welcomed the announcement by the Australian Financial Complaints Authority about proposed changes to its funding model...
Moving to Letters of Advice, abolishing safe harbour steps to comply with best interest duty and indexing the wholesale assets test are among proposals made by the Financ...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...