Centrepoint Alliance has the opportunity to sneak up from behind while the three major licensees are distracted as chief executive John Shuttleworth tells Money Managemen...
The financial advice profession has seen double-digit adviser losses over the past week, including six advisers who departed Australia’s largest advice licensee....
Regal Partners has grown funds under management to $12.2 billion and flagged it may consider smaller bolt-on acquisitions, having withdrawn a bid last year for Pacific Cu...
BT is offering its first private markets managed account on the BT Panorama platform as interest in alternatives grow among high-net-worth investors. ...
Risk management and compliance system Fourth Line has partnered with insurance broker Numerisk to launch a new PI insurance solution for financial advice practices....
Research house Genium Investment Partners has made a third appointment from Morningstar in less than a year to work in its newly-launched research ratings division....
Iress has announced it is strengthening its security settings after suffering an unauthorised access of its systems over the weekend....
Financial advice platform Otivo has made an experienced appointment from the US as its head of product strategy....
Apostle Funds Management has appointed the newly created position of director, head of wholesale as the firm expands its Australian footprint in the wholesale sector....
Recruitment manager Robert Half has shared the most in-demand roles in financial services that firms are finding difficult to fill, driven by ASIC’s growing focus on risk...
Real estate debt provider DWS has appointed Matthias Naumann as chief investment officer for real estate for Asia-Pacific. ...
Former Pendal manager Vimal Gor has returned to bonds as head of fixed income and multi-asset at Ellerston Capital, just months after joining a crypto advisory firm. ...
Principal Asset Management has made its Finisterre Emerging Markets Debt Total Return strategy available to wholesale and institutional investors in Australia. ...
ASIC has suspended the AFS licence of a Melbourne fund manager responsible for six managed investment schemes....
Schroders Australia has become the latest asset manager to announce changes to its Australian investment teams with head of fixed income Stuart Dear to depart after more ...
The Albanese government has confirmed superannuation will be paid on the Commonwealth paid parental leave scheme from next year, addressing a longstanding “gender blind s...
Total MySuper assets are approaching $1 trillion while the number of funds with more than six members has declined by 40 per cent over the last five years, according to A...
SuperRatings has shared the top 10 balanced superannuation funds of the calendar year 2023, with the top two funds returning more than 13 per cent each....
Super funds have delivered a strong 2023 calendar year result, bolstered by strong international share markets, successfully reversing losses of 4.6 per cent in the previ...
Money Management explores four key superannuation fund mergers expected to finalise this year, including two mergers with Australian Retirement Trust. ...
Policy and advocacy specialist Benjamin Marshan has left the Council of Australian Life Insurers after less than a year, having joined in March from the Financial Plannin...
The declining volume of risk advisers meant KPMG has found a rising lapse rate for insurance policies arranged by independent financial advisers, particularly in the TPD ...
The Life Insurance Code of Practice has transferred from the Financial Services Council to the Council of Australian Life Insurers....
The firm has announced it will no longer be writing new life insurance policies in the retail advised and corporate group insurance channels, citing a declining market an...
ASIC has issued its first interim stop order on two life insurance products from ClearView Life for DDO failures....
Australian Ethical has reported its net profit after tax (NPAT) fell 15% to $9.6 million for the year ended 30 June, while its underlying profit after tax (UPAT) declined...
Insignia Financial has announced a 59% increase in its underlying net profit after tax (UNPAT) to $234.5 million in FY22....
Having completed their educational qualifications, those advisers who remain in the industry are reporting being “run off their feet” with new clients....
With October being Mental Health Month, it’s a good opportunity for people in the profession to look out for each other’s mental health....
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has rejected an application by a former tax agent to stay a Tax Practitioners Board decision to terminate his registration with the ma...
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has handed down his third budget, outlining the government’s macroeconomic forecasts and changes to superannuation....
The central bank has announced its latest rate decision amid stubborn inflation and increasing geopolitical tension....
Government has introduced a bill to Parliament to legislate the first stream of the QAR reforms....
ASIC now has a 1:1 ratio when it comes to court success in the enforcement of crypto activities and more action is expected as Treasury seeks to introduce a regulatory fr...
A leading governance body has hit out at “specialist interest groups proposing ad hoc law reform” when it comes to reforms of financial services legislation and believes ...
Dear CEO and board, It's time to start some VERY HEAVY LOBBYING on behalf of advisers which could save your platform re...
He is every thing ASIC said he was BUT How on earth did he expect to get away with it????? . these guy's who dip in...
A tad optimistic from Morningstar. Adviser numbers are somewhat irrelevant; it all comes down to the platform and whethe...