At the time of market turmoil investors and financial advisers tend to turn to defensive strategies, according to RARE Infrastructure....

Specialist advice for self-managed superannuation funds is necessary to navigate market turbulences caused by external factors, the SMSF Association says....

Natixis Investment Managers has reduced its exposure to equities in light of coronavirus in expectation of higher volatility in stockmarkets....

Passive funds could be a ‘penny-wise, pound-foolish trade’ as markets penalise price distortion, according to Ariel Investments....

Investing in global equities can protect investors from a weaker Australian dollar, according to Plato Investment Management....

Australian investors remain underexposed to China and should reconsider their allocations to be more than zero, according to VanEck....

Anthony Doyle finds that lowering interest rates does not always increase spending on consumption....

The industry took a “she’ll be right” attitude in the decade after the GFC where it acted as if nothing was wrong, according to ASIC commissioner James Shipton....

Super funds recovered from August’s falls and posted modest gains in September, according to superannuation research house SuperRatings....

Bennelong’s Julian Beaumont explains why it is futile to worry about the future of the economy and that a downturn is not on the horizon yet....

The global economy is less resilient than 12 years ago at the onset of the financial crisis with the Euro area having seen the biggest decrease in resilience over the per...

More unintended consequences appear to have emerged from the Government’s changes to insurance inside superannuation, with superannuation funds reporting an uptick in cla...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has estimated that remediation provisioning by Australia’s major financial institutions has so far reached $9 billion...

Yesterday’s confirmation that Australia’s economy was at its weakest since the global financial crisis in 2009 should serve as a warning to the public to protect their lo...