Advisers must look beyond the controversy from the recent Budget and determine what opportunities and risks it offers for their clients, David Glen writes....

Advisers must be extremely diligent about ensuring they fulfill their duty of care, as two recent court cases have shown. David Glen runs through the post-FOFA adviser ch...

Banks are being warned against high risk lending by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), as house prices continue to grow in many markets across the cou...

THE process Lonsec implemented to select the winners for each award category is consistent with last year's process and consisted of three primary components....

EQT’s acquisition of ANZ Trustees sees it create senior Risk and Compliance role....

Self-managed super fund (SMSF) service provider Heffron has launched an online SMSF form with in-built checking tools to avoid compliance headaches....

Life insurer TAL has managed to maintain profitability despite record claims payouts....

Regulatory and legislative change has become the biggest threat to Australian businesses, an Aon risk survey has revealed. ...

Insurer TAL upgrades risk management approach via appointment of Chief Risk Officer. ...

Life insurer TAL has appointed a chief risk officer to its senior executive team to bolster its risk management sector....

Retail advisers have traditionally shied away from alternative investments, but an upswing in the market could see them become a hot ticket option in 2014, particularly f...

Plato announces relationship with Milliman to overcome sequencing and longevity risk issues. ...

An enforceable undertaking is one of the major challenges that can confront a financial services business, writes Grant Holley, but it need not be a nightmare and can be ...

Rudi Minbatiwala looks at the challenges of objectives-based strategies and the drawbacks associated with the simplifications of the risk concept....