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Hamish Tadgell writes that understanding the management of a company is crucial to determining if it is a quality investment, outlining the ways that a savvy investor can...

With the local share market having underperformed its offshore peers in the year to date, Nicholas Grove takes a look at which parts of the ASX demonstrated some resilien...

Using FE Analytics to look under the hood of the Fidelity Australian Equities fund, Hannah Wootton finds that a strong 2018 after a tough 2017 has seen the fund meet its ...

Mike Taylor looks at the policy environment facing financial planners as they prepare to enter 2019 and concludes that they are facing almost unprecedented levels of unce...

God rest ye weary planners, don't sweat on FASEA's delays, remember to keep working, and producing SOAs....

Outsider spent a reasonable portion of his working life strolling the corridors of the Federal Parliament and thus, he thinks he knows a thing or two about how the system...

Outsider sends a big yuletide shout out to former Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia boss, Pauline Vamos, for taking on what might possibly be one of the bi...

We entrust a significant portion of our savings into the superannuation system yet, as Hannah Wootton writes, the amount of information we get from funds in exchange is a...

Antoinette Mullins draws on her personal experience and explains how to navigate your client’s money values to ensure they get the best outcomes. ...

Margo Lydon says financial advisers should consider clients’ mental and emotional wellbeing if they want to build high-trust relationships....

Delays, both unreasonable and not, are entrenched deeply in the insurance claims process. Col Fullagar outlines why these delays occur and the deep damage they can cause ...

As a year dominated by the Royal Commission draws to a close, Jenny Johanson looks at what the industry needs to do to rebuild trust, improve governance, and bounce back ...

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