Editorial

In providing an update on Greece, Matthew Sherwood writes that modern day Greece is hardly something that Alexander the Great would have envisaged. The country stands on ...

Editorial

The case for an interest rate cut

A cut in interest rates would result in the rise of consumer and business confidence, a fall in the Australian dollar and improvements on the stock market, according to R...

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Bank reputation is the new profit driver

East & Partners and Daymark Public Relations have launched the Bank Reputation Index, which seeks to rank the reputation of Australia banks among customers....

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Overcoming the new deposit guarantee hurdles

The Government guarantee on deposits was recently capped at $250,000. Tamara Radice details the facts about the change and explores options available to investors under t...

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Industry super funds stumble on to the secret of success

It is now more than six years' since the industry superannuation funds launched their 'compare the pair' advertising campaign and, as Mike Taylor reports, it appears to h...

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The financial planner's conundrum

The current global economic uncertainty has resulted in many investors questioning the wisdom of some of their investment decisions. Michael Carrigan explores ways in whi...

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Helping your clients with trauma insurance claims

Col Fullagar studied the aftermath of one particular trauma insured event and discovered a fourth, hidden area, in which this type of insurance can assist financial plann...

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Industry super funds' advertising onslaught 'incomparable'

The industry superannuation funds advertising campaign reached such a level in September and early October that it prompted the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and t...

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Time to overweight portfolios to emerging markets?

Given the dichotomy between high growth emerging markets and low-growth developed markets, should all portfolios be 'overweight' to emerging market equities? If so, overw...

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Time to overweight portfolios to emerging markets?

This month PortfolioConstruction Forum asked the research houses: Given the dichotomy between high growth emerging markets and low-growth developed markets, should all po...

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Govt's FOFA reforms a return to the 1980s

If the Government had cared to undertake a full regulatory impact analysis of its new legislation it might have quickly concluded that, in many respects, it was turning b...