Features

Managed accounts - what is driving increased interest?

Eylem Kamerakkas writes that the increased transparency, control and engagement that managed accounts offer mean they are giving equities and managed funds a run for thei...

Expert Analysis

Understanding retiree investment behaviour: key to achieving long-term goals

Alastair MacLeod looks at how behavioural biases can help advisers create plans that retirees are more likely to stick to, meaning that their long-term goals could be mor...

Features

Follow the leader

As financial planners gear up for new education requirements, Anastasia Santoreneos writes that it’s time to look at other industries employing similar licensing standard...

Editorial

The end of an 18-year punt

The Commonwealth Bank’s announcement about how it will demerge its Colonial First State and other wealth businesses brings an end to an 18-year strategy, which started as...

Features

Responsible investments: Separating the wood from the trees

Are Australian investors growing a conscience? Anastasia Santoreneos writes that the evidence with respect to responsible investments would tend to suggest they are....

Features

Planning for aged care

As Australians continue to live longer, the need for aged care continues to grow. Hannah Wootton looks at what advice financial planners can offer clients on aged care, w...

Features

Who will guard the guards?

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been the frequent subject of demands for greater scrutiny of the regulators themselves. As Hannah Wootton writes,...

Editorial

Dover must be a catalyst for change

The unprecedented nature of the closure of the Dover Financial Services business and resultant limbo status of its clients and advisers must act as a catalyst for change ...

Outsider

Bragging and maintaining the rage

Some people just want to maintain the rage and so Outsider gives a big shout out to former Financial Services Council (FSC) policy wonk and Liberal Party aspirant, Andrew...

Outsider

Missing out on the gong show

Is it a sign of the political times that, so far as Outsider can tell, no one of significant note in the financial services industry received a gong in this year’s Queen’...

Outsider

Terry’s McMasterful exercise in Falstaffian discretion

Great, indeed, is the man who writes his own history....

Tools & guides

Is it time for low-volatility ETFs?

With the return of volatility across global markets and some investors calling the top of the equity cycle, Christian Obrist and Blair Hannon ask whether now is the time ...