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Rushed financial services reforms such as FOFA and Stronger Super are exacting a heavy toll on financial planners and superannuation funds....

Churn in the life/risk space remains a contentious issue, but as Col Fullagar explains, responsibility not only resides with advisers but also with the insurers and how t...

Colonial First State's Skye Macpherson argues that rising living standards in the emerging world are leading to higher food costs....

FIIG's Dr Stephen Nash argues that inflation-linked bonds offer more than protection from inflation....

The Australian banking system has not had to cope with falling property values, unlike its counterparts in most developed nations. Have we just been lucky? Robert Keavney...

Bela Moore and Andrew Tsanadis find some pockets of the financial services industry are hiring while others have brought their recruitment activities to a halt....

While the industry has given a broad welcome to the limited licensing regime, accountants will need to be subjected to the same scrutiny as financial planners, writes Mik...

Mike Taylor writes that the existence of large payments and the perception that a sales culture continues to exist in the financial planning space represents a dangerous ...

The results of the first part of Money Management’s annual Rate the Raters survey are in and Lonsec seems to have come out on top yet again, albeit by a smaller margin. B...

Morningstar’s rating in this year’s survey of fund managers has slightly deteriorated over the past 12 months, particularly in the area of methodology....

Leveraging worldwide resources, Mercer’s global status has helped win respect for its research methods among the majority of fund managers in Money Management’s Rate the ...

Despite announcing it would close its doors in Australia in October, S&P hasn’t dropped the ball, bringing in consistent results from respondents in Money Management’s Ra...

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