It would be very easy to have read the announcement by the Minister for Finance, Senator Mathias Cormann, that he was pausing the FOFA change process as some sort of a vi...

Mike Taylor writes that planners and the Government need to reflect upon how they were once again outflanked by the industry funds in the battle for the hearts and minds ...

Rudi Minbatiwala looks at the challenges of objectives-based strategies and the drawbacks associated with the simplifications of the risk concept....

For investors looking for a consistent income stream that grows over time, global equity income has the fundamentals covered, writes Stephen Thornber. ...

Rudi Minbatiwala explores the challenges of balancing long-term capital preservation with immediate income needs....

An easy line of spin is being peddled on the antecedents and consequences of the Government’s FOFA amendments. But any examination of financial services history shows the...

If financial planners were given a choice between the model underpinning the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal and that underpinning the Financial Ombudsman Service, wha...

The Government’s amendments to the FOFA legislation seemed capable of creating some loopholes around commissions but, as Mike Taylor writes, the major planning organisati...

For investors wanting a healthy mix of yield and stability, listed infrastructure could be the way to go, writes Jonathan Reyes. ...

While risk markets look a little shaky in the near term, the prospective easing of the world’s major central banks could see optimism return later in the year, writes And...

The executive director of the Revenue Group within the Federal Treasury, Rob Heferen, made a very important point to last month’s SPAA conference in Brisbane: any change ...