The corporate regulator is investigating the role platforms and researchers played in failed schemes like Shield and First ...

Relying on super funds to fully embrace their obligations under the Retirement Income Covenant will leave significant parts ...

Advice practices are more profitable than ever and the industry is primed for growth. But research by CoreData presented to ...

As super funds scale up their advice provision, they’ll need to navigate murky governance waters and make sure their members ...

Education provider Kaplan Professional believes around 1700 advisers are at risk of not meeting the deadline to have an approved tertiary qualification. Kaplan announced this week it had launched a ...

Return to Growth Mode After a decade of decline marked by major commercial and policy disruption, improved capital and supply dynamics present licensee businesses with a lucrative opportunity to play ...

As the end of the financial year (EOFY) quickly approaches, advisers are facing new and old concerns in their discussions with clients. One concern prevalent among advisers is ensuring superannuation ...

The Financial Advice Association Australia has put its support behind new rules enabling the Australian Financial Complaints Authority to publicise the failure of financial firms to comply with AFCA ...

Centrepoint Alliance and the $34 billion industry fund Brighter Super have concluded a $1.22 million deal that will see around 90 per cent of Brighter's annual review book move to Queensland-based ...

Oddly, what is happening globally in private credit is rarely mentioned in the Australian context. It is as though private lending in Australia is immune to the risks of higher rates, weaker growth or ...

When an adviser leaves a practice there is the inevitable conflict over who has the rights to serve the client. Koda Capital chief executive Paul Heath tells Professional Planner a company trying to ...