Features

The sectors seeing increased 1 Crown ratings

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global stockmarkets has led to over a quarter of global equity funds receiving 1 Crown ratings....

Features

Which sectors had the most 5 Crowns?

Australian small and mid-cap equities had the highest percentage of 5 Crown rated funds in this latest edition of FE fundinfo’s Crown Ratings, representing 17% of the sec...

Features

The newly-rated fund returning 112% in three years

There were five funds in this FE fundinfo Crown Fund Rating rebalance which received the highest ranking in their first-ever rating. ...

Outsider

Is the Govt turning superannuation into Afterpay?

Make no mistake, Outsider is a big fan of superannuation possibly because he was reporting on it when the Hawke/Keating Government cemented the Prices and Incomes Accord ...

Outsider

Blends are OK, but why aren’t diversity panels diverse?

Outsider is pleased that, even though it took too long, the issue of diversity has become an important matter for many financial services firms, on the surface at least....

Outsider

Will offshoring result in yesterday’s answer tomorrow?

As someone who has had to deal with offshore service providers, Outsider is very interested in the suggestion that paraplanning services can be satisfactorily provided by...

Tools & guides

Using thematic investments

There are numerous investment themes hitting the news, Kanish Chugh writes, and advisers need to be aware of how they can get access to these if clients are seeking expos...

Editorial

Successive Govts have failed on financial planning regulation

If financial advice is to be made more affordable, the layer upon layer of financial planning regulation needs to be stripped back and the Australian Securities and Inves...

Features

InFocus: AMP topping up its war chest but what about advice?

Mike Taylor writes that if AMP’s joint venture with Ares around its private markets business comes to fruition it will have topped up the company’s commercial war chest b...

Features

Where do we go from here?

There was support for increased standards in the financial advice industry, Chris Dastoor writes, but any goodwill was destroyed by FASEA in just a few years. Where did i...

Features

Balancing returns while excluding mining

Australian investors need to consider whether they are willing to sacrifice returns for their ethical values as the exclusion of miners could cause a significant skew to ...