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While the demand and need for financial advice is growing, advisers still feel that there are barriers to client acquisition and that the advice environment is challengin...

While advisers need to strategise around the myriad of superannuation changes tabled in the 2016 Federal Budget, they should not implement changes just for the sake of it...

Col Fullagar reviews ASIC’s life insurance industry report and finds there are some serious issues in the claims management protocols of potentially all insurers....

Financial advisers will need to be able to segment their client base to take full advantage of the CIPR regime, Paul Murphy writes....

Ian Martin looks at the Australian bond market and how the changes in market expectations have an effect on bond indices....

Outsider has been removing the mothballs and generally dusting off his black tie, top hat and tails because May is black-tie month....

Scott Morrison seems to be taking a softly-softly approach to the housing affordability crisis, preferring a scalpel over a chainsaw....

Outsider wonders what Donald Trump's reaction would be to the voices that are becoming louder over the interest in investing responsibly. A chorus of 'fake news' perhaps?...

Tim Howard looks at the changed treatment of certain contributions to defined benefit schemes....

Schroders’ Greg Cooper reminisced about the period the firm took home the top award four years in a row at Money Management’s Fund Manager of the Year awards. ...

Allowing young Australians to access their super to fund home purchases is tantamount to crossing a quarter-horse with a donkey to deliver a not very pretty mule....

Mike Taylor writes that when the Government introduced the ‘significance test’ to the AFSL breach reporting regime in 2003 it was seen as sensible moderation but all that...

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