EDITORIAL

Recent events in global markets have highlighted how investor confidence, emotions and psychology can play a vital role in driving market upturns and downturns....

Regional financial planners face the same broad issues as those in metropolitan areas, but they also face a number of issues that city slickers do not....

With practices no longer able to rely on strong returns to help retain and attract clients, a strong value proposition can make or break a financial planning practice, wr...

Stuart Fechner translates the persistently complex language of investment....

There may be nothing illegal about the direct marketing tactics being employed by some financial services companies, but when the regulator starts dealing with the conseq...

The recent global financial crisis has thrown a great deal of attention back on the issue of risk management for businesses big and small. One of the key questions being ...

With his van Eyk Three Pillars Listed Investment Company being targeted by Dixon Advisory, van Eyk’s Mark Thomas explains what makes LICs an attractive proposition despit...

Mike Mitchell examines the recent changes to the Government’s supervision of philanthropic giving and weighs up the advantages and disadvantages....

Financial planning companies and individual planners have been the subject of severe adverse findings by Financial Ombudsman Service panelists. ...

Simple portfolios may make investors feel good but may well fail to deliver or meet expectations, writes Dominic McCormick....

Two recent research reports suggest active fund management has failed over the medium term to outperform the market. Robin Bowerman weighs in on the index versus active d...

Industry commentators are predicting many Australian managed share funds will not be able to make either quarterly or half-year distributions to investors this year due t...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 3 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

6 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

8 months ago

The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

3 weeks 4 days ago

Despite the financial adviser exam being rooted in ethics, two professional year advisers believe the lack of support and transparency from the regulator around the exam ...

2 weeks 3 days ago

ASIC has banned two advisers from the same advice firm for giving clients inappropriate superannuation advice that was not in their best interests. ...

3 weeks 3 days ago