The Australian financial services sector must address six critical challenges in order to navigate risks and opportunities, according to the Australian Sustainable Financ...
Australian super funds that invest responsibly tend to outperform their peers since responsible investment is no longer at the perimeter of investment philosophy, a study...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed the reliance of superannuation funds on general advice and the regulator’s concerns about vertical inte...
The quality of advice provided by retail funds and industry funds have been found to be similar, according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....
Two of Australia’s largest industry superannuation funds have revealed how much money they spent on advertising and marketing, with AustralianSuper revealing that its con...
Returns have been significantly better than expected at the start of the year and October returns benefited from positive global share markets, according to Chant West. ...
It will be up to the Government to determine whether superannuation funds will be able to use member cross-subsidies to fund intra-fund advice, according to the Australia...
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has moved ahead of Government legislative amendments to outline a simplification of the rules around insurance inside super...
In a bid to lift regulatory burden on super funds the two regulators are looking to share data for areas of common interest....
The retirement income review’s model will be able to dispel the contagious false narratives such as spiralling inflation and plummeting house prices that disproportionate...
Superannuation funds will get just a few weeks’ notice and no consultation before the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority publishes its controversial heat maps on ...
The Government has failed to deliver the necessary legislation and regulation to compel superannuation funds to publish their portfolio holdings meaning they will get a y...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed that superannuation funds which pay fines from member’s capital are under no specific obligation to tel...
Payment technology company InPayTech has authored a whitepaper stating Australian super funds needed to increase their security for data breaches and fraud....
Industry Super Australia has suggested that the Australian Taxation Office delegate superannuation funds and trade unions to pursue superannuation guarantee debts from re...
My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...
Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...
How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...