Features

How savvy advisers can use currency to navigate volatile times

While currency exposure can provide a safety valve for economic downturns, advisers need to employ a structured approach to manage foreign exposures, Matthew Hopkins writ...

Outsider

What’s good for Commbank is good for OZ

Outsider wonders whether it is a case of what is good for the Commonwealth Bank is good for Australia....

Outsider

Fox departs with hardly a hair out of place

The challenges confronting Fox at the AFA might have sent a lot of lesser men positively grey, but Outsider is happy to report that he has detected no change to the big m...

Outsider

They call it ‘news cycle’ for a reason

It’s a sense of déjà vu here at Money Management as Outsider's colleagues found editorial pieces from 1995 that discussed the need for professionalisation of the financia...

Tools & guides

Risk management – avoid it at your peril

Independent financial advisers may not have been exposed to the various elements of risk management and they therefore could inadvertently neglect them to the detriment o...

Funds Management

Smart beta boom

Smart beta exchange traded funds (ETFs) are set to become the fastest growing ETF market in the world ......

Editorial

Banks less enamoured of wealth management

The days of the major banks competing for major wealth management assets are gone due to a combination of indifferent financial results and regulatory and reputational ri...

Editorial

Professional standards and de-risking the industry

With the passage of the Professional Standards legislation, the major employers have already set about de-risking their planning exposures, Mike Taylor writes....

Features

Professionalism: Are we there yet? – Education feature part 1

Jassmyn Goh finds out what the industry’s concerns and expectations are relating to the new professional standards regime....

Features

To study or not to study – Education feature part 2

When the Government initially announced the professional standards bill, one of the biggest concerns was whether there would be an early retirement exodus of late-career ...

Features

The new infrastructure environment

Oksana Patron finds out how the changing macroeconomic environment will affect infrastructure assets and how smaller investors can access the sector....