EDITORIAL

As the curtain comes down on the current Parliament, financial services players are left to wonder whether the Government should not have just stuck to the script reflect...

Do direct investors need protection from themselves? Jonathan Ramsay argues taking into account the fundamentals of underlying investments will pay off better than going ...

Law firms seem to be rubbing their hands together amid increased consolidation in the financial services industry. Justin Whealing reports....

The Future of Financial Advice regime will become law from 1 July, but as the Financial Services Council’s Cecilia Storniolo points out, many questions vital to the finan...

In any investment category there is invariably a broad spectrum of views, many of which are in outright opposition. Nick Armet from Fidelity looks at the behavioural prob...

As advisers become increasingly time-poor, multi-manager funds seem to have emerged as an ‘all-in-one’ solution they need for their clients. But as Benjamin Levy reports,...

Financial planners are required by regulation to hold Professional Indemnity insurance, but Oscar Martinis writes that notwithstanding the increasing cost of premiums, pl...

Investing in equities offshore has for the past few years been a quick way to add some negatives to a balance sheet, and even the most hardened investors found the going ...

While investing offshore is beginning to look attractive once again, even the experts recognise there are potential problems for the unwary among the opportunities, and t...

Benchmark-unaware investing seems to be a winning philosophy. Kathryn Young explains where bonds stand. ...

The world is going through a unique period, so what might have worked in the past will not work in the future. Dominic McCormick says now is not the time to be complacent...

The process of using credit to inflate assets that is associated with quantitative easing has created much nominal growth and little real wealth – and could lead to a dea...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months ago

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

3 months 1 week ago

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

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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