FINANCIAL MARKETS

Funds management

As the number of high-net-worth individuals in Australia passes 42,000, Knight Frank has delved into the luxury goods they are purchasing and whether they are outpacing f...

Funds management

Amid whispers of a crisis in the financial markets, Lonsec has suggested that investors who avoid herd-like selling can often protect themselves in times of crisis and ev...

Features

Elizabeth Tian looks at what products investors are looking at to help protect against the uncertainty of a market’s direction. ...

Funds management

Boutique investment consulting group, Evergreen, has appointed its asset allocation committee members who had combined experience of over 135 years. ...

Tools & guides

Financial advice is more than picking stocks or managed funds and advisers need to understand the different services that are important to their clients, Matt Walsh write...

Financial planning

Technology and software provider Iress has reported an underlying group profit of $71.4 million for year to the end of December 2014, up 27.7 per cent on the on the pcp....

Editorial

Former FPA chairman, Matthew Rowe argues that the changing dynamics impacting the financial planning industry makes it inevitable that some organisations will wither and ...

Funds management

The Council of Financial Regulators is set to conduct its second review of competition in the clearing of Australian cash equities in three years....

Financial planning

The FPA’s Matthew Rowe has questioned the survivability of a number of financial planning organisations....

Financial planning

The Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre says ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft, is off the mark when he pushes for a national exam in the absence of evidence it will a...

Financial planning

ASIC says bitcoins and other digital currencies are not financial products but that derivatives may evolve. ...

People & Products

Magellan Financial Group has announced it has appointed Dr Brett Cairns as executive chairman, effective 1 January 2015....

Life/Risk

Choice has rejected APRA’s criticisms of insurance comparisons websites stating that its arguments are those “typically heard from vested interests that would prefer not ...

Editorial

Alternative investments, like hedge funds, can be seamlessly blended into portfolios, but the trick is to remember they are not an asset class in their own right, Andrew ...

Editorial

A quick look at Australia's changing demographic profile raises many questions about the future for the retirement market, but also shows the hunt for dividend yield is f...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 1 week ago

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

5 months 1 week ago

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

7 months 1 week ago

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

2 days ago

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...

2 weeks 2 days ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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