Many financial planners today face having to adopt a fee-for-service model. Much more is being written on the need for this than on how to implement it in practice. Rober...

With the financial crisis effectively over, Benjamin Levy examines the state of the direct property market and looks at the role it should play for investors in the futur...

This time we need to be fair dinkum about managed investment scheme change, writes Anthony Abraham. ...

Those advising on gearing in super will need to ensure they are licensed to deal in derivatives by the end of September under draft regulations released yesterday....

Financial planners have a bad reputation, but there should be a distinction between 'proper' financial planners and the 'bottom dwellers', writes Michael Dale....

A number of independently owned dealer groups have broadly supported regulatory changes put forward by Chris Bowen, but some have expressed concern the changes favour ban...

Questions about the future direction of one of Australia’s biggest, non-institutionally owned dealer groups may have been resolved last Friday, but PIS' merger partner co...

Mary Ferizis outlines the key legislative changes regarding margin lending, and the impact the changes will have on financial advice....

New legislation has prompted concern about the future of margin lending among industry commentators. Yet with confidence that the rebounding share market will stimulate f...

Australian unlisted property funds delivered a positive 2.2 per cent total return for the March 2010 quarter, the second positive quarterly return recorded since August 2...

ASIC's new consultation paper on agribusiness schemes has prompted specialists to argue that debt rather than general information was the major problem....

Cromwell property group looks to stabilise its property fund and resume unit-holder distributions by purchasing property holdings....

PIS has signed a joint venture agreement that will give it entry to the cash management space....

The unlisted property sector is in crisis, writes Robert Keavney. He explains why this is not the first time and expresses concerns that it will happen again....