Consumers will soon be able to choose their own super fund, but that doesn’t mean they should let their life insurance run through to the keeper. Ross Kelly reports....

Expect fire and brimstone and all manner of damnation when the financial planning industry’s new code of conduct on soft dollar payment goes live on 1 January....

All eyes were on Ian Johnston as advisers came to terms with the most significant regulatory changes in many years...

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Individual managed accounts (IMAs) have been touted as the next big thing in financial services for a number of years. Admittedly, nobody knows exactly how many funds und...

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While platform operators talk about scale driving cost efficiencies, critics argue that there has been very little difference in the cost structure for end investors over...

Merger and acquisition activity in the business world generally runs in cycles. One organisation buys or merges with another, which in turn can trigger a frenzy of activi...