Editorial

Financial advisers are well placed to manage business succession strategies for small-to-medium enterprise clients, writes Ted Voges....

Editorial

Building lasting client relationships

A recent study has shown that advisers see their client relationship as the primary foundation of their value proposition. Fiona Mackenzie describes the importance of a ...

Editorial

Where the next BRIC economies will be

Brazil, Russia, India and China formed a block of countries that returned well to their investors over the past decade. Tom Stevenson tries to predict which countries cou...

Editorial

English lessons for Australia's financial planners

As Australian planners seek to come to terms with the Government’s Future of Financial Advice changes, Paul Resnik outlines events in the United Kingdom and their impact ...

Editorial

Defining market ups and downs

Dr Ron Bewley explains what volatility means, and whether reports of 'volatile markets' in the past couple of years have been accurate....

Editorial

Advice for the Government on what is financial advice

A significant portion of the Australian population does not understand what constitutes financial advice and that it remains far too easy for people operating well outsid...

Editorial

ISN's FOFA politicking finally attracts FPA criticism

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has finally called a spade a spade. It has accused the Industry Super Network (ISN) of using its political influence and the Futu...

Editorial

ISN's financial planning research raises more questions than answers

The Industry Super Network has again used research it commissioned from Rice Warner to substantiate its arguments on opt-in but, as Chris Kennedy reports, many of the Ric...

Editorial

Investment - bull in a China shop

Many investors are bullish about China’s growth prospects, but over-investment in unproductive asset classes by the Chinese authorities should be ringing alarm bells, wri...

Editorial

July research round-up

PortfolioConstruction Forum asks the major funds research houses for an update on the state of the market and their most recent projects....

Editorial

The biggest hurdles facing researchers

This month, PortfolioConstruction Forum asked the research houses: What, in your firm’s view, is one of the big challenges facing the Australian funds research industry a...

Editorial

Time to put the brakes on Chinese exposure

Amid mounting evidence that China’s economy is on the verge of a slowdown, it is time to reduce commodities exposures, writes Chris Watling. ...