With little evidence of improvement in global macroeconomic indicators and as geopolitical risk escalates, PIMCO’s Aaditya Thakur cautions against overly focusing on tact...

The office markets across key cities and industrial property sectors still offer solid investment opportunities for investors, according to Thinktank....

The unlisted retail property funds sector delivered strong performance of 13.7% over 12 months to 30 June, according to data from Zenith Investment Partners, MSCI, The Pr...

Orla Cowan has been appointed by ClearView Wealth to chief risk officer....

Outsider has never exactly been quick to embrace new technologies and still hankers after his old Olivetti portable typewriter when it comes time to bash out a newsflash ...

Regular readers of Outsider will remember that he recently questioned what, precisely, born again One Nation Senator, Malcolm Roberts, would bring to last month’s Financi...

Vanguard is seeking to move into the active market, away from its traditional index fund background, with the launch of several active products....

Outsider really wonders whether the “barefoot investor”, Scott Pape, is really barefoot given his book sales and the spotter’s fee he is probably owed by a particular sup...

Zurich is now offering a Global Growth Opportunities separately managed account on the HUB24 platform, offering an ‘even more concentrated’ version of its Concentrated Gl...

Super funds are not communicating to members that their investment targets are not taking into account the new norm of low interest rates and higher volatility, Rice Warn...

Despite staff cuts at parent company AMP, SuperConcepts has launched a new Adelaide office with State Government support....

Disability income insurance products and the way they have been designed do not work well for prolonged periods of disability or chronic conditions, according to the anal...

Financial advisers have been provided with an advocacy pack aimed at convincing politicians to slow-down the rate of change being imposed on the financial planning indust...

AMP financial planners have asked to consider the merits of using a litigation funder to underwrite what is likely to be a prolonged class action against AMP’s BOLR chang...

Australia’s financial services regulators have been handed greater regulatory powers but is there a danger that their interventions will result in distortions to otherwis...

Mike Taylor writes that in the absence of a definitive methodology for ensuring clients are rebated the grandfathered remuneration which would otherwise have gone to fina...

The US/China trade war may be dragging on, writes Laura Dew, but are we really facing the threat of a global currency war and will either side be a winner at the end?...

Nikko AM portfolio manager Chris Rands looks at how historic bond performance can help us in the debate between term deposits and fixed rate bonds. ...

Rather than an unwelcome compliance burden, the Design and Distribution Obligations and the ASIC Interventions Power can be a force for a better and more sustainable busi...

It is well-known that Australians love talking about property, writes Oksana Patron, so how has the AREIT market performed and which sectors should they look at in the fu...