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Oksana Patron finds out how financial planners and their clients can benefit from the current trends in the commercial property sector and whether now is a good time for ...

John Berrill looks at the changes the ISWG have put forward to shake up the life insurance industry....

Upcoming changes to adviser remuneration will have profound implications and advisers must act quickly to diversify and grow their revenue or potentially suffer an immedi...

Understanding the correlation between technological developments and the challenges of caring for elderly clients will help advisers give holistic advice, Richard Dunkerl...

Investors should consider whether expensive strategies are simply about price or if they actually offer something more personal that’s difficult to quantify, but will ens...

Outsider suspects that hedge fund manager, Stuart McAuliffe is on to something in naming his companies after successful pirates, something which explains the successful l...

A Senate Economics Committee inquiry session has once again tickled Outsider's funny bone, and the common thread seems to be Liberal Senator, Jane Hume....

Outsider wonders whether his old mate, Barry Lambert is really serious in his threat/promise to run for the Senate to pursue his crusade for the legalisation of medicinal...

Despite the domination of Australian equities in portfolios, global opportunities are attractive particularly for a bottom-up benchmark-unaware manager, Simon Blanchflowe...

The recent Australian Securities and Investments Commission report on how large financial institutions oversee their advisers has served as a sobering reminder of the cha...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission review of Mortgage Broker Remuneration is reminiscent of the findings which gave rise to the Future of Financial Advi...

As it becomes increasingly necessary for planners to provide goals-based strategic advice, Malavika Santhebennur asks if big data can help them customise advice....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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