Vanguard’s entry to the Australian market, Labor and Coalition MPs have revealed themselves as fellow-travellers with the ...

Centrepoint Alliance chief executive John Shuttleworth says shifting the bulk of funding the ASIC levy from individual ...

The Financial Advice Association Australia is calling for nominations for the election of three new ordinary member directors, who will serve a three-year term. All FAAA ordinary Certified Financial ...

Phase 1 of Retirement Income Strategy development, whereby funds aim to deliver retirement solutions and guidance regarding the member’s interest in the fund, is now well underway. But effective ...

Sequoia Financial Group Limited’s plan to shore up its cash position and address concerns over its viability as a going concern appears to be under way, with two of its subsidiaries selling down the ...

Changes to capital gains tax and reduced borrowing capacity for property under the federal government’s proposed superannuation tax changes are pushing younger Australians toward superannuation and, ...

The $175 billion profit-to-member super fund UniSuper has announced a pilot graduate program in partnership with Striver and the Financial Advice Association of Australia to offer a pathway for those ...

The benefits of good advice go far beyond money management, and this is reflected in the evolving role of advisers, according to new research by Russell Investments. Professional Planner, in ...

Confidence in retirement options is something that is built over the working life of an employee, according to MLC’s The Real Retirement Report, which found that 84 per cent of Australians believe ...

The FSC’s proposal to recalibrate the ASIC levy by significantly increasing the amount payable by AFSLs threatens to decrease competition and consumer choice for no improvement to licensee governance ...

Shifting the burden of funding the ASIC levy from individual advisers to licensees sounds great in practice but could drive hundreds of smaller, well-run licensees out of business. If reducing ...

When the annual ASIC levy was introduced in 2017, the advice sector was a very different place. For starters, it wasn’t recognised as a profession yet. The big four banks and AMP dominated the ...