The head of the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort has warned Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones the advice profession is unable to bear the burden of covering the scheme with the levy to ...

Advice businesses should work to establish an individual brand identity to attract the right clients and reassure current ...

Insignia Financial has completed the separation of MLC Wealth from National Australia Bank. In an update to the ASX, Insignia said the transition of the MLC MasterKey and Plum registries, along with ...

Selfwealth has announced it has received a revised proposal from Bell Financial Group to acquire 100 per cent of its shares for $0.25 cash per share by way of a scheme of arrangement. The ‘Revised ...

Data from ProductRex has highlighted the impact negative media coverage is having on troubled industry fund Cbus which is ...

ASIC is set to review how advice businesses protect client data and manage offshore service providers. Nathan Jacobsen, CEO ...

Digital advice provider Otivo has promoted three people to it’s executive team, including chief technology officer Nathan Isterling who will now be chief information officer.

The corporate regulator has declined its longstanding speaking position at the AIOFP conference due to an escalating row with the controversial fringe association. Professional Planner understands ...

The first half of next year will be a pivotal period in the reinvigoration of AMP’s superannuation division under group executive Melinda Howes, who joined the business in January this year and is ...

Information Sheet 286 FAQs: Ongoing fee arrangements and consents, which answers frequently asked questions (FAQs) for financial advisers who must get a client’s written consent to enter into or renew ...

While there has been strong conjecture over whether financial advice has earned the right to label itself a profession, it is still lacking approval of a professional standards scheme because of its ...

The politics of institutional investment is highly contested, with the Coalition’s establishment of the Future Fund and Labor’s landmark introduction of compulsory super perennial flash-points. But ...