Managed funds continue to be the preferred investment option for Australians, according to a new survey of 4,500 investors....

The placement of a Victorian vendor of equity release products into voluntary administration on Monday has intensified warnings to retirees to take extreme care before bu...

Federal Government moves to cut the compliance burden on the financial planning industry could backfire, creating more questions than answers for advisers....

An adviser who sought to encourage people into self-managed superannuation funds by helping them locate lost super accounts has been convicted in the Federal Court and or...

The corporate regulator is standing by its decision to ask Bridges Financial Planning to conduct an external audit of its compliance procedures, despite claims by Bridges...

Van Eyk Research has signed its fourth research alliance of the year, partnering with Chant West Financial Services to provide industry super fund ratings to clients....

With the baby boomer generation now entering retirement, or certainly looking down the gun barrel, the focus on retirement income streams, by both the government and fina...

The launch of reverse mortgage products into the Australian market could offer individuals without significant super savings the opportunity to create an income stream in...

There are very few genuinely new products in financial services. Usually they are variations on an existing theme, and structured products fall very much into this catego...

Tasmanian financial planner Brendan Moore could still escape criminal conviction when he is sentenced by a Federal judge on November 2, even though he pleaded guilty to t...

A former director of the now defunct Whet Investments has been ordered to pay more than $200,000 to the failed company’s administrators following an investigation by the ...

If there’s a constant in the ongoing industry debate over net benefits to super fund members, it is the regularity with which the key players have asked the Australian Se...

The gentle rumble that was self-managed super has grown into a resounding roar over the last few years. I guess it’s for all the right reasons – a sense of control, the p...

Former Sydney City Councillor Kathryn Greiner will step down as chair of the FPA after one year at the top of the industry body....