Features

Why it is that the leading financial planning practitioners earn well in excess of $500,000 a year, while the vast majority of advisers generate annual incomes of less th...

Editorial

The taxing business of funds management

Advisers recommending high-income clients invest blindly in unit trusts should beware of tax implications....

Editorial

Margin lending profits inflated: Walker

Profits for margin lending providers are artificially high, according to an industry figure....

Editorial

NAFM defies cost-cutting trend to achieve double its profit

National Australia Financial Management (NAFM) has doubled profits for the six months ending March this year, reporting a $14 million rise to $28 million. NAFM managing d...

Editorial

Market shake-up forces rethink in hunt for value

It’s been a tough 18 months for value managers who have watched many of their long held beliefs being tested by a changing market. Zilla Efrat examines how Rothschild has...

Editorial

RISK – Choice is simple: time to save the market

Disability insurance in Australia has reached a crisis point largely thanks to the under-pricing of products carrying certain unsustainable features, argues Mark Gallaghe...