Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that ASIC is right to pursue managers with just as much vigour as it pursues financial planners when things go wrong. ...

Editorial

Why alternative investments could be a hot ticket option in 2014

Retail advisers have traditionally shied away from alternative investments, but an upswing in the market could see them become a hot ticket option in 2014, particularly f...

Editorial

Pausing FOFA changes a win for pragmatism

It would be very easy to have read the announcement by the Minister for Finance, Senator Mathias Cormann, that he was pausing the FOFA change process as some sort of a vi...

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Outflanked in FOFA PR battle

Mike Taylor writes that planners and the Government need to reflect upon how they were once again outflanked by the industry funds in the battle for the hearts and minds ...

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The danger of simplifying Australian equities

Rudi Minbatiwala looks at the challenges of objectives-based strategies and the drawbacks associated with the simplifications of the risk concept....

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Where to now for the Financial Ombudsman Service?

If financial planners were given a choice between the model underpinning the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal and that underpinning the Financial Ombudsman Service, wha...

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The facts on FOFA, not the spin

An easy line of spin is being peddled on the antecedents and consequences of the Government’s FOFA amendments. But any examination of financial services history shows the...

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Balancing long-term capital preservation with income needs

Rudi Minbatiwala explores the challenges of balancing long-term capital preservation with immediate income needs....

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Why global equity income works

For investors looking for a consistent income stream that grows over time, global equity income has the fundamentals covered, writes Stephen Thornber. ...

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FOFA and resisting remuneration temptation

The Government’s amendments to the FOFA legislation seemed capable of creating some loopholes around commissions but, as Mike Taylor writes, the major planning organisati...

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Keeping our regulators non-political

The executive director of the Revenue Group within the Federal Treasury, Rob Heferen, made a very important point to last month’s SPAA conference in Brisbane: any change ...

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Waiting for risk markets to bounce

While risk markets look a little shaky in the near term, the prospective easing of the world’s major central banks could see optimism return later in the year, writes And...