Despite concerns of a "mining bust", HSBC chief economist in Australia and New Zealand Paul Bloxham insists that "this time is different"....
Holley Nethercote’s David Court outlines the ATO's 2012-13 SMSF compliance focus and regulatory developments in areas such as insurance and asset valuations....
The Australian Taxation Office is the right regulatory body to oversee the SMSF sector, according to SMSF Professionals’ Association of Australia chief executive Andrea S...
Global macro investing and hedging behaviour is having an increasingly significant impact on equity markets, according to Standard Life Investments....
SMSFs that receive zero interest loans from a fund member may need to unwind the arrangement or deal with the impacts of changing legislation, according to Macquarie Bank...
Superannuation funds signal they can invest in infrastructure, but only in line with investment rules....
The recently announced industry standard for defining a hedge fund presents a catch-all concern to unaware fund managers....
The barriers separating developed and emerging market economies are diminishing and this is having a major affect on portfolio construction and choice of benchmark, accor...
Despite global and domestic fears of a housing bubble in Australia, Chan & Naylor believes it is time for Generation Y to step into the property market....
A number of business development managers who have been made redundant by financial services institutions are struggling to find their way back into the industry....


BlackRock Australia plans to launch a Bitcoin ETF later this month, wrapping the firm’s US-listed version which is US$85 billion in size....
ASIC has banned a Melbourne-based financial adviser for eight years over false and misleading statements regarding clients’ superannuation investments....
ASIC has banned a Melbourne-based financial adviser who gave inappropriate advice to his clients including false and misleading Statements of Advice....
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...