Features

Financial planning professionalism comes at a price

The moment members of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) voted to become a professional association, and in doing so, dispense with the organisation's long-standing...

Editorial

Confronting the European debt crisis

Current shuffling of the deckchairs on the Titanic that is Europe will not solve the euro crisis, according to Martin Conlon....

Editorial

The evolving insurance underwriter

Underwriting is a continually evolving area and as a result insurers need to stay ahead of the game if they are to understand the changing insurance needs of our nation, ...

Editorial

Investors turn to multi-asset funds

Dissatisfaction with the performance of traditional managed funds and the resulting criticism may see the rise of multi-asset solutions, according to Dominic McCormick....

Editorial

Asset allocation - is there a hole in the bucket strategy?

Tim Sanderson puts the traditional asset allocation approach head to head with the bucket strategy, with some surprising results....

Editorial

FOFA fatigue sets in for investment platforms

Platforms are facing pressure from all sides, Milana Pokrajac writes. How will they deal with changing financial adviser demands, low investor sentiment and fast approach...

Editorial

The rise of multi-asset funds

Asset allocation is becoming critically important in a world of shorter and more extreme investment cycles. This is where multi-asset funds come in, writes Janine Mace....

Editorial

Finding the right fit for multi-asset funds

Are multi-asset funds the next big thing, deja vu - or perhaps a bit of both? Janine Mace reports....

Editorial

Investors talk themselves into a funk

Australian investors seem certain to close out the year with their allocations set to conservative and with half an eye on a struggling Europe, but as Mike Taylor reports...

Editorial

Illiquid assets and solid superannuation funds

When the chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), Pauline Vamos, last week issued a release clearly aimed at countering adverse rep...

Editorial

FOFA stampede could get uglier

The financial planning industry has been undertaking some intense lobbying in recent weeks in the hope of extracting some key amendments to the Government’s Future of Fin...

Editorial

Rising inflation will impact portfolios - what are you doing about it?

As emerging markets wages increase significantly, the core CPI of many developed world economies will rise, and potentially force some central banks to revisit interest r...