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Financial planning

While the outlook for portfolio returns has gotten somewhat better, financial advisers continue to tread cautiously with their clients....

Life/Risk

Funeral insurance could be the most expensive way to manage funeral costs, and ASIC is urging investors to consider all the alternatives....

Funds management

Inflows into the exchange-traded fund market are becoming a useful way to gauge investor sentiment, according to BetaShares head of investment strategy Drew Corbett....

Editorial

FIIG's Dr Stephen Nash argues that inflation-linked bonds offer more than protection from inflation....

Editorial

ipac's Jeff Rogers details the thought processes behind looking through the prevailing investor pessimism and reaffirming the efficacy of long-term strategies....

Editorial

Dominick McCormick argues that shares, not bonds, should be the core of long-term portfolios....

Editorial

Like their foreign counterparts, Australian bonds seem to have gone from risk-free return to return-free risk. Matthew Drennan explains why bonds are not the safe haven, ...

Editorial

Piers Bolger believes that emerging market debt will continue to grow in prominence and provide an alternative debt solution to developed market economies....

Editorial

Building debt portfolios used to be easy. But it’s much harder now. These days, the debt side of portfolios should be absolutely secure and designed as three buckets. Tim...

Editorial

With term deposit rates still on a relative high and the annuities which help fund investors’ years in retirement, why should one bother with fixed interest? Tim Wong ans...

Editorial

Tom Stevenson discusses the concept of investing in equities – not cash – for income....

Editorial

Piers Bolger examines the rise of the Australian dollar and its impact on investment decisions....

Editorial

Challenger’s Aaron Minney provides his comparison of annuities and direct fixed income in a response to an article recently published in Money Management and authored by ...

Editorial

High returns can be accessed from fixed interest markets, but it is vital that investors have a portfolio that is properly diversified if they want to keep the returns th...

Financial planning

Apostle enters into distribution arrangement for convertible bond specialist, Camden Asset Management....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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