Despite recent criticism by the corporate regulator, financial planners have won a major concession that will allow them to recommend clients change super funds, even if ...

The Australian funds management industry is continuing to experience good growth, but fund managers are going to have to do more to win the trust of investors, according ...

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Fund managers will find it increasingly difficult to generate returns for their investors, and larger, more established managers are likely to be the ones struggling to p...

The life insurance sector has contributed to the underinsurance of Australians by over-engineering products so that they are poorly understood by customers, according to ...

Only four per cent of Australian parents have enough life insurance cover to sustain their family’s lifestyle if either parent were to die, with 60 per cent - or 5.4 mill...

The abolition of the superannuation surcharge for higher income earners is likely to lead to the demise of personal contributions to superannuation funds in favour of sal...

The weight of industry opinion appears to fall on the side of a fee-for-service as a method of adviser remuneration under choice, although some suggest the case has not y...

Many investors will remain ignorant of the soft-dollar payments received by advisers under the new industry Code of Practice for their disclosure, according to the Austra...

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The Association of Superannuation Funds Australia remains the dominant organisation in the superannuation industry....

Differences in disclosure documents between major superannuation providers currently permitted by regulators and industry associations are making it too hard for investor...

The Investment and Financial Services Association has released a fact sheet on self-managed super funds, the 30th fact sheet to be released in its online Getting the Edge...