Raf Biosse-Duplan explains why treating emerging markets as a block makes no sense any more, why institutional investors are so underweight emerging markets debt, and how...
APRA’s heatmap will include four investment performance measures that reflect the level of growth or defensive assets and trustees will have no excuse as to why a metric ...
People get overexcited about a positive story and suddenly everyone is competing against each other to buy a certain share and they bid the price up, writes Julian Morris...
An unpresented case could allow APRA to amend the existing risk management prudential standard to require super trustees to consider climate change as a material risk to ...
Senator Jane Hume has sought to dispel myths and excuses trustees have used to avoid merging....
Mike Taylor writes that 2019 proved challenging for the financial advice industry not least because of the Royal Commission and the Government’s determination to impleme...
With many advisers facing the need to move licensees, Scan2Archive’s Simon Harris explains how to deal with the challenge of moving from old, paper-based files to digital...
The Financial Services Council has urged caution on the use of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s proposed heatmapping exercises when making comparisons bet...
The Royal Commission has proved to be the biggest disruptor of 2019 but the question needs to be asked: Will it stand the clear-eyed scrutiny of history?...
George Bishay has been in the financial services industry for 25 years and has been named one of FE fundinfo’s Alpha Managers....
Coolabah’s co-founder, Darren Harvey, had a fascination with the stock market from a young age and has now been named one of FE fundinfo’s Alpha Managers. Harvey started ...
Glenn Feben, co-head of fixed interest at Janus Henderson Investors, has always been an active fund manager with the belief market inefficiencies created opportunities to...
Janus Henderson’s co-head of Australian fixed interest, Jay Sivapalan has always had an eye for investments and started when he was a university student by investing in a...
Their ability to find and exploit alpha is the main reason Coolabah Capital is able to outperform their peers, according to chief investment officer, Christopher Joye....
Mike Taylor writes that Alpha Managers are those fund managers who have stood out from their peers in terms of their career-long performance, with 11 being named in the i...
Global dividends were on the rise in Q3 despite a marked global slowdown, according to the Janus Henderson Global Dividend Index....
As planners may struggle to obtain finance to buy new practices, vendor finance may be a solution, according to a law firm....
The regulator’s new tool needs to be refined to include rigorous benchmarks and Choice products, Industry Super Australia believes....
Questions have been raised about the appropriateness of an Australian Securities and Investments Commission class order which absolves worker entitlement funds run by tra...
Enforceable undertakings too often entail zero penalties and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission would prefer to litigate....
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?...