Digital transformation and consumer belt-tightening were beneficial for portfolios of Japanese investors during COVID-19 chaos, according to FSSA Investment Managers. ...

Measures such as website traffic and shipping documentation can be useful tools in assessing a company’s performance, in addition to financial checks, according to Datt C...

Australian and Asian investors are two to three years behind the environmental, social, and governance curve, according to Calastone....

The tool will help advisers to deliver client investment and drawdown strategies for retirement....

The threat of rising inflation has been voted as the largest tail risk for markets, surpassing the COVID-19 pandemic for the first time in a year, according to Bank of Am...

Underperformance included the lack of ability to demonstrate an understanding of different types of advice and the components of key advice documentation....

The Financial Planning Association has challenged the Tax Practitioners Board to explain why tax financial advisers should be required to do anything beyond meet the requ...

Synchron has issued an urgent call for life insurers to clarify responses to the new Unfair Contract Terms regime. ...

The Advisers Association is calling for the big banks who have exited wealth management to be charged a per-adviser exit tax to help defray the costs of the ASIC levy....

Link Group and Switzer Asset Management have re-launched the Switzer High Yield Fund as a quoted managed active exchange-traded fund. ...

Westpac is exiting lenders mortgage insurance by selling the business to Arch Capital with appropriate warranties and indemnities....

CommBank has unveiled its own buy now, pay later service called Commbank BNPL but there are “fatal flaws” in the business, according to Datt Capital’s Emanuel Datt. ...

The high valuations of technology firms could be challenged if inflation is to rise quickly, according to fund managers....

Opportunities in the small-cap space have significantly increased in the last five years as there has been a “sea change” in firms’ ability to invent products that are gl...

T. Rowe Price has increased its weighting to Japan at the expense of Europe as it feels the global trade outlook is a key driver for Japan while Europe is struggling with...

Proactive management allows managers to move beyond traditional active and passive management approaches and capture a wider opportunity set in emerging markets, accordin...

Proactive management allows managers to move beyond traditional active and passive management approaches and capture a wider opportunity set in emerging markets, accordin...

Japanese funds have struggled to outperform the Nikkei 225 with no funds outperforming over three or five years and only one outperforming over the last decade....

In the last four exams, the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has acknowledged that advice documentation is a problem area with exam performance. ...

The Government is continuing to hedge its bets on delivering the scheduled increase in the superannuation guarantee to 10%. ...