The looming financial and social challenges posed by longevity can no longer be ignored, writes Indy Singh....

Countplus, a subsidiary of Count Financial, has made two further acquisitions of accounting and financial services firms - taking the total number of it acquisitions to 1...

Female director appointments to ASX200 company boards have jumped 20 per cent in 2010 ahead of changes to the Australian Securities Exchange Corporate Governance Principl...

Genesys Wealth Advisers is working overtime to stem the flow of outgoing member firms by creating a new loyalty scheme aimed at locking in firms for up to five years....

Westpac breaks new ground by agreeing to pay superannuation on unpaid parental leave....

Graeme Colley examines the superannuation guarantee changes made in the Budget and what they mean for clients....

Many self-managed superannuation fund trustees are failing to keep their documentation up-to-date and risk running into regulatory and compliance problems....

Annually rebalancing model portfolios incurs an average cost of 0.05 per cent in terms of the buy/sell spread, according to Zenith Investment Partners....

AMP Financial Planning claims validation of its strategy on the back of growing planner numbers and higher productivity....

Australia's population of high-net-worth individuals has risen by 34.4 per cent to 173,600, according to Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management and Capgemini’s latest Wor...

Synchron’s John Prossor claims planner growth is based on the limitations imposed by others....

Despite dismal April and May returns, many super funds are set to reward members with double digit returns for the financial year....

With the financial crisis effectively over, Benjamin Levy examines the state of the direct property market and looks at the role it should play for investors in the futur...

ETFs finally gaining traction, but few investors seeking financial advice....