Features

Hybrids of the major banks downgraded again

Craig Swanger shares his fears about equity hybrids and the impact they could have on investors...

With the right advice behind them, retirees can easily re-enter the workforce without jeopardising their pension benefits, Mark Teale writes....

Editorial

Every dog has its day

If Storm Financial has dogged the reputations of financial planners, Mike Taylor writes that the findings of the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corrupti...

Editorial

Right of entry

Financial planners gave mixed reactions to reports that a company related to real estate icon, Ray White, would be venturing into the financial planning space but is the ...

Editorial

No mystery in value of Asian equities

Investing in stocks in Asia is not for the faint-hearted given the scope of the region and the range of investments on offer. However, as Jason Spits writes, accessing so...

Editorial

Is FOS too big for its boots?

Heidi Nash-Smith and Jack Geng explore the controversy surrounding the Financial Ombudsman Service and how ASIC can redress the power imbalance....

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Zenith reaches its zenith

Zenith has been named Money Management’s Research House of the Year for 2014, taking the title from last year’s winner, Morningstar, writes Nicholas O’Donoghue. ...

Editorial

Dangers in chasing yield and returns

Still haunted by memories of the GFC, investors are excessively focusing on yield to the detriment of diversification. Knowing how crises manifest in different ways, they...

Editorial

The personal touch

While it may sound paradoxical, approaching financial planning like a friendship or relationship could be the key to improving professionalism, Nataliya Denisov writes. ...

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Tapping a vast market for advice

Mike Taylor writes that industry fund members represent a large and largely untapped client base for financial planners to which the FPA has rightly sought to provide acc...

Editorial

Hybrids of the major banks to be downgraded again

Craig Swanger writes about the impact the downgrade on bank hybrids could have on investors. ...

Editorial

Compensation beyond PI

With a third of FOS determinations going unpaid the efficacy of Professional Indemnity insurance as a compensation mechanism is under question and, as Mike Taylor reports...