Independent financial advisers who are unencumbered by vertically integrated institutional models will be able to save costs with greater access to a broader platform and...

The asset manager is looking to focus on the superannuation sector and the top end of private wealth as it targets the Australian market....

Five planning and accounting groups have united to press the Government to override the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on its proposed levy increases ci...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is recouping millions of dollars from the industry to pay for the provision of policy advice to Government. Should th...

Instead of allowing a race to the bottom in terms of the cost of providing advice, financial advisers should be accurately assessing what their advice is worth and chargi...

The Government’s Your Future Your Super superannuation performance test needs a collection of multiple metrics rather than a single metric based on a narrow assessment of...

The annual renewal will lead to unintended consequences which will have negative implications for financial advice practices and flow on effects in terms of extra cost an...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is pursuing National Australia Bank in the Federal Court over 195,305 instances of incorrectly charging fees and bein...

The ethical fund has reduced its fees on all of its investment options on the back of a 200% increase in new members last year. ...

Iress has looked to the new rules around advice fee consent to roll-out one of the first building blocks of its infrastructure as a service strategy....

The base and performance fee cutes follow Acadian’s decision to bring wholesale distribution of the funds in-house. ...

The savings generated by innovations such as Superstream and new technology have been offset by the costs of increased regulation, according to evidence given to a Parlia...

Industry funds are urging more clarity from the regulators on what can be delivered via limited and intrafund advice while canvassing the ability to bill members in three...

The bank has been ordered by the Federal Court of Australia to pay $10 million in penalties after charging customers same-name fees which it was not entitled to and conti...