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What are the benefits of using a commodity trading adviser (managed futures) fund in a portfolio? What is a reasonable allocation, and where should that allocation come f...

The process of ‘priming’, often seen in advertising, taps into the bias in one’s decision-making. Nick Armet explains this process has implications for investors and thei...

The Government claims it has delivered on the Productivity Commission’s default fund recommendations, but Mike Taylor writes that the devil is in the detail....

ETFs have been growing at a rapid pace in the last few years, but as Janine Mace writes, this might be due to their potential, rather than the recent and current achievem...

Dr Stephen Nash explains what happens when equities perform outside the average....

With ASIC's Peter Kell pointing to a level of life insurance policy churning to warrant regulatory concern, it is time for a clear definition of 'churn'....

Allan Gray Australia's Johan de Lange says investors should not be settling for less but demanding better returns from their fund managers....

Australian financial advisers haven’t exactly embraced ETFs, despite the sector growing in popularity each year. Janine Mace finds adviser education is vital....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) last week released its consultation paper Future of Financial Advice: Approval of codes of conduct for exempti...

Select Asset Management’s Dominic McCormick says it’s time investors reduced their reliance on simplistic risk categories in asset allocation....

Mike Taylor writes that codes of conduct are only effective when those who sign up genuinely appreciate the consequences that follow a breach....

Magellan Financial Group has reported net inflows of $282.8 million over the month to 31 October, growing its funds under management to $4.85 billion....

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