The growth and popularity of broad-based equity market ETFs have paved the way for a burgeoning range of innovative fixed ...

Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, the Magnificent 7 companies have accounted for more than half the S&P 500 Index ...

Despite ASIC’s action on Shield and First Guardian, lead generation services are still in operation, presenting a danger to the $4.4 trillion superannuation system. Two separate investigations ...

Morningstar’s Australian arm will start offering paid product ratings, dropping a core business philosophy that separated it from the local market. Starting from June 2026, fund managers or financial ...

This event is open to CEOs and senior leaders of financial planning licensees, dealer groups and boutique advice firms, along with C-suite executives in superannuation funds with oversight of advice, ...

ASIC Commissioner Alan Kirkland believes the regulator moved quickly after it had enough evidence on the misappropriation of investor money in Shield and First Guardian. “We moved relatively quickly ...

The liquidators of the First Guardian Master Fund believe it will be 18 months before distributions are made to creditors or unitholders with only $1.6 million recovered so far. An updated report on ...

Financial advisers and their clients are increasingly demanding customised, bespoke investment solutions as scrutiny of the role of researchers and assets consultants ramps up in the wake of the ...

I appreciate Professional Planner‘s ongoing coverage of critical issues in the financial advice and investment research sector, including Generation Development Group CEO Grant Hackett’s recent ...

With just a month left before the education standard deadline, Parliament has passed a bill amending an error in the law that would’ve seen advisers who were relying on top-up courses to meet the ...

Sequoia Financial Group chair Mike Ryan and chief executive Garry Crole escaped any shareholder scrutiny at the company’s AGM over the role of its licensee-for-hire business and the advisers it ...