As we enter a new financial year, Laura Dew explores the year that was and which asset classes performed best over the period. ...

There are four funds set to benefit from the completion of the acquisition of MLC Wealth by IOOF from National Australia Bank, which makes it Australia’s largest wealth m...

The acquisition has doubled the size of the IOOF business to $494 billion in funds under management and will see a single senior leadership and management structure in pl...

Kristian Zimmermann has been appointed as co-head of private equity, while Rachael Lockyer has joined as a portfolio manager....

IOOF’s bid to acquire MLC, including NULIS Nominees, has been approved by the prudential regulator, and is working towards a completion date of 31 May, 2021....

The financial advice technology firm has appointed MLC group executive advice, Geoff Rogers, to the role who will begin in June....

While financial advisers have signalled they are generally open to switching licensees, salaried advisers have strongly signalled they are attracted to self-employment....

The combined loss of advisers for IOOF/MLC has reached 252 advisers since IOOF announced the purchase of MLC in August last year and is now nearing AMP Group which has lo...

Count Financial continues to be active in recruiting advice firms from both the MLC and IOOF licenses....

Ten superannuation funds experienced outflows in excess of a billion dollars as a result of the Government’s COVID-19 hardship superannuation early release regime, with i...

This has been a tough week for IOOF given that the financial planning groups operating under its umbrella have topped the list for the highest declines in adviser numbers...

Superannuation funds have told a Parliamentary Committee that the costs of implementing Superstream were so high that they offset any immediate cost-savings....

When the Government’s early release superannuation scheme comes to an end, 10 funds will have made over 60% of the payments, most of them being industry funds....

The number of actual advisers has dropped through the 21,000 barrier this week, with the loss of a further 31 advisers, according to HFS Consulting’s data....