There is an expectation that the total number of advisers will drop to 17,200 in January, and thereafter to between 15,000 and 16,000....

James Evans is to retire as chair of Pendal after nine years and will be replaced by Deborah Page....

The corporate regulator has noticed an increase in marketing recommending Australians to switch to self-managed superannuation funds that invest in crypto, and has warned...

Barclays has appointed Duncan Beattie and Duncan Connellan as managing directors of investment banking in Australia....

Greg Chubb, Charter Hall Group retail chief executive, has been appointed to Link Asset Management’s chief operating officer – international, starting April 2022....

Boutique firm Firetrail Investments has poached Fidelity’s Anthony Doyle to work as head of investment strategy on its global opportunities fund....

Former Financial Services Council chief executive, John Brogden, has been appointed as a director of Colonial First State Investments and Avanteos Investment Limited....

Women’s financial security should not be overlooked by the Government when it comes to ending violence against women, according to the Australian Institute of Superannuat...

There is a preference for cyclical equities in areas such as green infrastructure while small-caps remain an attractive asset class after strong performance in 2021....

The firm has reported $4.9 billion in annual inflows in calendar year 2021, 87% higher than the previous year....

Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand has provided advice to members wishing to cancel their Australian financial service licence following rising costs of runn...

The now-defunct education authority said it had “no power” to exempt an adviser from sitting the exam but had referred any adviser it knew to be experiencing mental healt...

The superannuation fund is the first licensee to have a civil penalty imposed for failing to report breaches to the corporate regulator since its new penalty powers were ...

Despite committing to net zero by 2050, NAB, ANZ, and Westpac have lent to a fund manager that purchased a 49% stake in a 1.6 billion tonne carbon bomb project, according...

Fund managers piled into cyclical assets at the start of the year, eyeing strong global growth as the pandemic recedes, Bank of America finds....

BlackRock’s focus on sustainability is not because the fund manager is an environmentalist but because of its fiduciary duties to its clients, according to its chief exec...

In a market that is likely to be characterised by high volatility, investors would do well to invest in Asian dividend equities that have room for growth, according to Ma...

Advice practices which can show they are able to scale up their business via the introduction of new talent are going to be the most valuable firms going forward....

The platform provider’s total funds under administration is now at $68.3 billion as its proposal to acquire Class is to be voted on 31 January, 2022....

Australian Unity has appointed Matthew Moore as its first head of responsible investment and stewardship, an appointment which the firm says will enable Australian Unity ...