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The increasing attention on hedge funds marks the growing popularity of this alternative investment class and, as NICOLE SZOLLOS writes, recent data suggests continuing g...

The 1990s were actually quite unusual in that we did not experience one instance in which markets fell by more than 20 per cent. On average, we experience bear markets ev...

Australia’s funds management community is in the midst of a dramatic slump in profits and revenue, the latest annual Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) ...

There was a time, which the pioneers of ethical investment in this country will remember, when investment practices which took account of non-financial criteria were cons...

INVESTORS looking to optimise their share market returns in the next six months should look to value stocks given the prevailing economic conditions, which will create a ...

An understanding of market movements is essential for financial planners and as ROBERT KEAVNEY writes, taking a longer term view will always reveal the underlying fundame...

AUSTRALIAN retail investors have lost faith in US stocks and have started to look elsewhere, placing the US markets under pressure to provide a stable investment ground, ...

The success of Australia’s Listed Property Trust (LPT) sector is driving the products, and those who invest in them, increasingly offshore. GEORGE LIONDIS reports....

While many investors are steering clear of offshore markets, GEORGE LIONDIS reports that Frank Russell has stuck to its guns with its heavy international equities weighti...

I HAVE asked dozens of financial planners where they add value to their clients. Their usual response is through advice and strategy....

Will master trusts and planning software ever merge. John Wilkinson finds opinion is still divided....

It is said that a year is a long time in politics but in the world of technology and software it is close to eternity....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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A financial advice firm has been penalised $11 million in the Federal Court for providing ‘cookie cutter advice’ to its clients and breaching conflicted remuneration rule...

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