financial advice

Financial advice

As Australia enters a new financial year, there are several changes to be aware of which will affect areas such as super contribution and mortgages. ...

Superannuation

The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has been urged identify the firms against which complaints are being made as well as their suppliers such as insurance compa...

Financial advice

Greater transparency will help address anomalies in the way in which superannuation fund salaried financial advisers are paid from administration and investment fees, acc...

Financial advice

Several financial planners have questioned whether the corporate regulator is appropriately scrutinising whether superannuation fund salaried advisers were being paid out...

Financial advice

Yesterday’s confirmation that Australia’s economy was at its weakest since the global financial crisis in 2009 should serve as a warning to the public to protect their lo...

Financial advice

Suncorp Super is facing a class action over the manner in which its superannuation fund paid fees to advisers....

Financial advice

Industry superannuation funds are winning more corporate superannuation mandates and therefore making the choices about who provides financial advice....

Financial advice

Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair James Shipton has issued a ‘fairness challenge’ to the financial services industry....

Financial advice

Industry fund HostPlus has been made to pay a $12,600 infringement notice penalty for claiming its advice was ‘independent’....

Financial advice

Job opportunities within the finance and insurance services sector were up 10 per cent in the first quarter of 2019, according to Sunsuper’s Australian Job Index. ...

Financial advice

Limited transparency in the superannuation space is preventing advisers from properly advising on ethical investment considerations, according to Australian Ethical Inves...

Financial advice

Consumers can expect improved justice and recourse should they be victims of wrongdoing by the financial services industry as the result of a Senate Committee report hand...

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