Superannuation industry executives have acknowledged the potential for funds to run into liquidity issues because of the downturn and risk to jobs in the travel, hospital...

The Federal Government is being confronted by an increasingly united front on the need to retain the deductibility of advice fees from MySuper products....

Industry funds-owned IFM Investors has maintained its relative silence on how it remunerates its executives, arguing that a key parliamentary committee is seeking more in...

A coalition of consumer groups has pointed to key changes to advice and life insurance resulting from the Royal Commission and insisted on no loopholes and no carve-outs....

Financial Planning Association chief executive, Dante De Gori has pointed to the impacts of increasing regulatory oversight with the cost of generating a statement of adv...

Superannuation fund trustees will not be able to resort to members’ funds held in trust to pay civil penalties arising from the new Financial Accountability Regime....

A West Australian adviser has told the Federal Treasury that industry funds have been allowed to hide behind intra-fund advice and to create an environment that favours o...

Industry funds-backed IFM Investors has taken a lashing from the Assistant Minister for Financial Services, Senator Jane Hume, over its payment of $12.7 million bonus to ...

Attracting talent to superannuation funds could become problematic under the Government’s move to extend the Bank Executive Accountability Regime to the superannuation in...

Research and ratings house Lonsec is suggesting to financial planning firms that it may need its services in appropriately meeting the requirements of the new Financial A...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed how it placed conditions on superannuation funds which had the effect of ending the payment of commissi...

Superannuation funds have been ‘engaged’ by the regulators over payments to financial advisers and other third parties....

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority will be imposing a climate change stress test on banks, insurers and superannuation funds....

A major industry fund has told a Senate Committee that the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s heatmaps got it wrong because of classification errors....