AMP

Superannuation

Self-managed super fund trustees have shied away from cash due to falling interest rates but stayed close to defensive and low-risk assets, shifting funds into fixed inte...

Editorial

AMP has driven solid cashflows out of its platform acquisitions, but planning firm flows prove patchy....

Superannuation

AMP Capital is investing significant resources in developing products specifically for SMSFs and is currently looking to recruit an executive to focus on this area....

Financial planning

Australian Financial Services ends its run as licence cancelled under voluntary administration....

Superannuation

New white paper points to planning opportunities and a problematic vertically-integrated model....

Financial planning

Warning that FOFA fee disclosure requirements will create more problems than they fix....

Financial planning

Colonial First State has reassumed its position at the top of the Wealth Insights platform rankings. ...

Financial planning

Consumers are displaying less signs of stress in the first quarter of this year, according to the latest data released by Dun & Bradstreet as part of its Consumer Financi...

Funds management

Ratings house, Standard & Poor’s has been targeted for litigation in the wake of proposed Lehman settlement with Australian councils....

Financial planning

With ASIC delaying its work on a financial planner training framework, progress on raising the bar on education seems to be stuck in limbo, writes Tim Stewart....

Financial planning

AMP-owned dealer group ipac is is looking to further tap into the accumulator client segment by building advice capabilities to support this market. ...

Editorial

While significant progress has been made in achieving gender equality within the financial services industry, Milana Pokrajac and Bela Moore find there is still a long wa...

Editorial

International experts have warned home bias could prove detrimental to Aussie investors, reports Janine Mace....

Editorial

With term deposit rates falling and bond yields at historic lows, investors are finally ready to listen. Janine Mace reports things are looking good for the Australian eq...

People & Products

AMP has appointed SMSF Professionals’ Association of Australian (SPAA) technical director Peter Burgess as head of policy and technical across the institution’s SMSF divi...

sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 2 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

4 months 2 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

6 months 3 weeks ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

2 weeks ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

6 days 9 hours ago

ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

1 week ago