The changes coming into force with the Your Future, Your Super reforms, writes Joe Brasacchio, present an opportunity for super funds to improve their member engagement....
Providing financial advice has managed to stand the test of time, writes Michael Pillemer, despite the rollercoaster of changes which have affected the industry in recent...
Outsider notes that the class wars between industry superannuation funds and retail master trusts have never really ended....
Outsider well understands that diligent corporate house-keeping waits for no-one and, at times, can be quite revealing....
Outsider chuckled when he read that Australian Securities and Investments Commission executives paid $33,000 to a team-building consultancy....
Recent legislative efforts in both the financial planning and superannuation spheres point to a Government too ready to leave too much policy detail to the regulators....
Ausbil’s Mark Knight writes that amid all the recent talk on the rise of passive investment strategies, their active counterparts have been steadily compounding outperfor...
COVID-19 has been a catalyst for technological change in the industry but, Chris Dastoor writes, a major issue remains in how technology can address the accessibility of ...
While alternative strategies can provide protection during down markets, advisers are still hesitant as they feel the perception of risk and illiquidity overshadow the be...
Col Fullager examines examples of poor insurer conduct and how the firms could have behaved better towards the client....
Their assets may be increasing but the number of Australia’s superannuation funds is falling and creating ‘mega funds’. Now, they need that scale to work in their favour,...
Positive trends are arising from COVID-19, writes Adam Grotzinger, which create mispriced opportunities in corporate bonds....
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...