Financial advisers and APRA-regulated super funds will be among those required to cover the shortfall of the CSLR special ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Enhanced research is vital for protecting investors and advisers, but limiting the sector to researchers that are both raters ...

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 ...

Minister for Financial Services Daniel Mulino says a decision on how the CSLR special levy will be funded is coming within weeks. Mulino acknowledged to the FAAA National Congress in Perth on ...

ASIC will review the retail distribution of private credit funds through advised channels next year as it releases a new surveillance report showing mixed practices from fund managers. The ...

Produced in partnership with Macquarie Asset Management. In ice hockey, Canadian Wayne Gretzky, who played 20 seasons in the National Hockey League and retired in 1999, is widely considered to be the ...