Features

Emerging markets - the good, the bad and the risky

It can seem that deficits outweigh the benefits when it comes to investing in emerging markets at present but, as Milana Pokrajac reports, while some of the emerging mark...

Editorial

Why investors should learn to expect the unexpected

One of the biggest challenges that investors face is working out what impact economic, financial, political, commercial or social events will have on their investments. A...

Editorial

Emerging markets: three to watch in 2014

Three investment specialists provide their outlook on some of the most talked-about emerging economies....

Editorial

What can planners learn from innovative disruption?

From Bo Derek Investments, Cockroach Theory, Black Swans to Dead Cat Bounces, no other industry attracts buzzwords quite like financial services. “Innovative disruption” ...

Editorial

The case for investing in Asia

While emerging economies such as Turkey, Brazil, Argentina and Ukraine are currently unattractive to investors, Jonathan Wu suggests investors look to the East. ...

Editorial

Why it's time to standardise Statements of Advice

With research showing that Statements of Advice remain almost impenetrable documents for consumers, Bruce Keenan argues it could be time for a change. ...

Editorial

Bringing FOFA back into balance

As the financial planning industry moves into 2014 it does so in the knowledge that the Abbott Government has delivered on its undertakings to address what it regarded as...

Editorial

Why it will pay for investors to be cautiously optimistic in 2014

The growth outlook for 2014 is looking up, but as AMP Capital’s chief economist Shane Oliver explains, it might pay to be cautiously optimistic....

Editorial

Why investors should stick with fixed income

Nick Bishop presents the case for remaining invested in fixed income, but suggests that in order to benefit, investors will need to be far more selective in their bond al...

Editorial

Equity Trustees: strong revenue growth despite failed merger move

Equity Trustees has posted double-digit revenue and net profit growth for the second half of last year despite an unsuccessful merger attempt with The Trust Company....

Editorial

Financial Systems Review a chance to move beyond FOFA

While there are many loose ends associated with the Future of Financial Advice regime, Mike Taylor writes that the Government should avoid allowing its Financial Systems ...

Editorial

Biggest acquisition of 2013 - Perpetual and EQT vie for Trust Company

In a bidding war that has lasted much of the year, The Trust Company board recently advised its shareholders to reject the latest takeover proposal by Equity Trustees in ...