Editorial

An Auditor-General’s report has revealed the degree to which the global financial crisis (GFC) has impacted on assets and investments...

The hedge fund party is over, but the hedge fund business is thoroughly intact. The business has been experiencing a...

Financial planning commissions may not be extinct in the financial services industry but they are now a seriously endangered species....

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is investigating investors who are artificially inflating their investment losses or transferring them inappropriately to take...

It is becoming increasingly obvious that irrespective of the initiatives flagged by the Financial Planning Association, the Australian financial services...

How safe are cash and bonds? Dominic McCormick discusses the state of these asset classes and whether the perception that...

Many of the financial advisers I've been talking to seem to have switched into a kind of survival mode: batten...

In October 2008, Mercer adopted a view that any new allocations to hedge fund-type strategies should be delayed. This was...

With the Federal Budget having delivered little more than some revenue-oriented tinkering to the financial services environment, a good deal...

Australia has enjoyed 17 consecutive years of economic growth with the result that distressed debt funds have had comparatively few...