Australia

Fidelity International - now Fidelity Worldwide Investment - has called on the FSA to "look at the Australian approach" after its Treasury announced platforms could continue to receive fund manager rebates.

Australia and New Zealand will see their share of the qualifying recognised overseas pension scheme (QROPS) market fall due to a tightening of tax laws, experts claim.

PruProtect has called critics of its desire for protection to be made compulsory as being "defeatist" and argued that the need is "very clear".

Rules that would require financial advisers in Australia to get clients to opt in to their services every two years - and send them a fee schedule every 12 months - are failing to win support among some key stakeholders.

Support services provider threesixty is planning to use its experience of dealing with the retail distribution review (RDR) to expand internationally to countries where financial planning is developing or undergoing similar reforms.

IFAs building up an expatriate client base will be pleased to learn that the number of Brits who yearn to live and work away from the UK shows no sign of diminishing.

Institutional investors in Australia need to better understand the role ETFs can play in portfolio management, according to Russell Investments.

Financial advisers in Australia have been warned any attempts to get around the country's equivalent of the retail distribution review (RDR) will not be tolerated by the regulator.

The steep rise in the cost of living in Australia coupled with sterling's 16.5% slump in value over the last year have put off migrating Brits from sailing off to our former colony to start a new life.

The Australian dollar has hit a 29-year high against the US dollar on the back of fresh demand for the nation's commodities.