Collapsing institutions and a loss of wealth have combined to give the margin lending industry a bad reputation. Angela Faherty explains why increased legislation and a m...

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) would like to see a better model used for pricing individual risk that would potentially bring down the costs of professional ind...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) no doubt believes it is doing a good job – and it is certainly operating within the guidelines laid down by ASIC – but i...

Many in the industry feel that the legislation targeting margin lending has only served to make investors more fearful of the practice. Ashley McIntyre reports....

Two Victorian men have been charged with multiple counts of insider trading while acting as brokers for Citigroup Wealth Advisors in Perth, while a third man has also bee...

The former managing director of Burns Philp Trustee Company has been sentenced to 12 years in prison on fraud charges, following a lengthy cat-and-mouse game with the Aus...

A former Macquarie Bank fund manager has been sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment for front running....

ASIC, hard-pressed for funding and resources, has embarked on a costly exercise aimed at determining the quality of retirement advice at a time when the underlying rules ...

Sydney-based planning principal, Greg Cook, questions whether advice being given to consumers by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission is really in the pub...

Directors have been warned of the need for more transparency on related party transactions....

A Victorian man has been arrested and charged in connection with the collapse of the Dollarforce group, which raised more than $24 million dollars from investors through ...

Not-for-profit superannuation fund trustees have been warned that if they do not agree on fund governance guidelines they risk having them imposed by the Government....

Clearview has appointed Chris Robson as its general counsel and company secretary, effective 4 April, 2011....

Several financial planners have called for due process to be instituted to give advisers the ability to appeal against a determination brought against them by the Financi...