Features

Why financial advisers must adapt to survive

Direct insurance is on the rise. Peter Smith discusses the ways in which financial advisers can adapt and stay relevant....

Editorial

Life insurance reforms create new opportunities

How do you keep a clear picture when the lines of life insurance are blurred? Damien Mu predicts that the distinctions that life insurance companies draw between group an...

Editorial

Taking on underinsurance requires a team effort

Underinsurance is a concern for the Australian community. However, Financial Services Council chief John Brogden believes the combined government and industry efforts cou...

Editorial

Is the lucky country's luck about to run out?

Economist Matt Drennan says it’s time for Australia's political leaders to acknowledge that our relative economic good fortune is attributable as much to luck as good man...

Editorial

Is the FOFA campaigning just getting started?

Financial planners should strongly welcome the delayed implementation of FOFA because shortly after its introduction will be the next Federal Election....

Editorial

What are the pros and cons of using an Australian equity SMA?

Learn about SMAs features and the pros and cons of using an Australian equity SMA...

Editorial

Why market crashes can be worse than mediocre returns

While we tend to focus on sharp market crashes, sudden declines that recover quickly within just a year or few are not necessarily problematic. What is far more destructi...

Editorial

FOFA set to give free kick to superannuation funds

The Government’s handling of FOFA risks entrenching an inappropriate advantage for superannuation funds with respect to the provision of financial advice, writes Mike Tay...

Editorial

A man’s home is his retirement

Australia’s love affair with property is well documented, but many baby boomers are selling up to fund their retirement. According to MLC's Andrew Barnett, this shows the...

Editorial

FOFA's failings come into focus as time runs out

The financial planning industry understands that time is running out to extract key amendments to the FOFA bills and, as Mike Taylor writes, the industry has distilled it...

Editorial

Have ASIC and APRA lost their objectivity?

Concerns ASIC and APRA were becoming increasingly politicised were brought to a head during the hearings into the FOFA reforms....

Editorial

Hedge funds pay a heavy price for GFC

Ever since the first impact of the global financial crisis, both international and domestic regulators have been announcing changes to hedge funds, which would aim at imp...