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 ...

One of the directors of the First Guardian Master Fund is at risk of losing his legal representation due to his inability to pay legal fees, and is seeking to sell assets, the Federal Court has heard.

Morningstar will take note of how private credit funds are marketed and distributed as part of its rating methodology into the controversial sector. Morningstar director of manager research ratings ...

Former JBWere chief executive Maria Lykouras has been appointed as the successor to Judith Fox to lead the Stockbrokers and Investment Advisers Association. Lykouras will commence from 1 December.

For those who remember the fable The Emperor’s New Clothes, the story is as relevant to markets today as it was to human nature centuries ago. An emperor, so enamoured with his own splendour, parades ...

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 ...

For business owners, having a succession plan – a plan B to cover the worst-case scenario – is essential for continuity.

Shadow Minister for Financial Services Pat Conaghan has called out ASIC for failing in its enforcement role on Shield and First Guardian, delivering the criticism just after a senior executive for the ...

InterPrac anticipates it will be fined and receive licensee restraints as a consequence of their role in the failed Shield ...

Minister for Financial Services Daniel Mulino said a decision on how the CSLR special levy will be funded is coming within ...