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The inability by Governments to plug the infrastructure investment shortfall to keep up with economic growth means infrastructure companies need to be part of the solutio...

While fixed property holdings in SMSFs can be an attractive prospect there are many debt and liquidity risks associated and advisers have a number of factors they need to...

Advisers need to be fully aware of the challenges that can come from disability income insurance in superannuation as it is possible for someone to have no benefits payab...

There needs to be careful consideration of the significant overlap between the requirements of the new professional standard framework under the new Standards Body and th...

Robo-advice and digital advice was hailed as the key to reaching the majority who don't seek advice. But with providers grappling with issues like generating revenue and ...

Clients need to break out of the thinking that income must be delivered by either low-yielding fixed income assets or riskier equities, Richard Quin writes. ...

Outsider wonders whether generational change is taking place within the industry funds sector after attending the recent Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) i...

Outsider once lived and worked in Canberra and so he knows the sort of denizens who inhabit the national capital and roam the corridors of the bureaucracy and Parliament....

Everyone should be allowed a victory lap, even the chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Greg Medcraft. ...

Financial planners and their clients face an inevitable period of uncertainty at a time of continuing volatility if the Government moves for a double dissolution election...

ASIC has signalled it will be closely examining the claims-handling of the major life/risk insurers, but Mike Taylor asks whether the regulator is simply the policeman wh...

Traditionally Australian investors have been tied to the domestic equities market, but volatile times mean they need to look beyond these fair shores, writes Nicholas O’D...

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