Elizabeth Tian looks at what products investors are looking at to help protect against the uncertainty of a market’s direction. ...

Boutique investment consulting group, Evergreen, has appointed its asset allocation committee members who had combined experience of over 135 years. ...

Financial advice is more than picking stocks or managed funds and advisers need to understand the different services that are important to their clients, Matt Walsh write...

Technology and software provider Iress has reported an underlying group profit of $71.4 million for year to the end of December 2014, up 27.7 per cent on the on the pcp....

Former FPA chairman, Matthew Rowe argues that the changing dynamics impacting the financial planning industry makes it inevitable that some organisations will wither and ...

The Council of Financial Regulators is set to conduct its second review of competition in the clearing of Australian cash equities in three years....

The FPA’s Matthew Rowe has questioned the survivability of a number of financial planning organisations....

The Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre says ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft, is off the mark when he pushes for a national exam in the absence of evidence it will a...

ASIC says bitcoins and other digital currencies are not financial products but that derivatives may evolve. ...

Magellan Financial Group has announced it has appointed Dr Brett Cairns as executive chairman, effective 1 January 2015....

Choice has rejected APRA’s criticisms of insurance comparisons websites stating that its arguments are those “typically heard from vested interests that would prefer not ...

Alternative investments, like hedge funds, can be seamlessly blended into portfolios, but the trick is to remember they are not an asset class in their own right, Andrew ...

A quick look at Australia's changing demographic profile raises many questions about the future for the retirement market, but also shows the hunt for dividend yield is f...

APRA uses draft guidance to tell the banks, AMP Limited, Macquarie, Suncorp and Challenger that operational separation is not an option for avoiding losses....