GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS

Financial planning

AMP's Steve Helmich explains what it means to be a professional financial planner and the value of professionalism for planners and their clients....

Financial planning

Australian investors remain pessimistic about the prospect of full market recovery, with their concern levels rising while return expectations are decreasing....

Financial planning

Specialist investment manager Omega Global Investors has produced new research supporting its global bond fund product....

Editorial

Select Asset Management's Dominic McCormick suspects the recent decline in currency volatility is the calm before a much bigger storm – with significant implications for ...

Financial planning

Funds manager Vanguard Investments has announced that it intends publishing quarterly portfolio holdings for all of its funds from this month onwards....

Financial planning

Australian investors may have built up a so-called "wall of cash" as they cling to safety in volatile times, but new research conducted by Wealth Insights suggests planne...

Financial planning

Financial services training provider RG 146 entered administration in August but is trying to trade out of trouble....

Financial planning

A social media platform aimed at raising awareness about climate risk and 'short-termism' in the global financial system was launched over the weekend in New York....

Superannuation

Superannuation reforms should centre around achieving adequate retirement savings for the majority of Australians and not short-term budget objectives, according to ASFA ...

Funds management

Investor sentiment has hit its highest level in 15 months, though it remains in negative territory, according to CoreData's quarterly Investor Sentiment Index....

Superannuation

New data released by AMP Limited has confirmed the adverse impact of the Federal Government having lowered superannuation concessional contribution caps....

Financial planning

The prolonged lull in investments markets, coupled with the pressure to comply with the new regulatory regime, is taking its toll on some planners' mental health....

Funds management

The platform market suffered yet another fall over the last year, with net fund flows reaching their lowest levels in 10 years....

Editorial

With Baby Boomers starting to enter retirement, there is a growing realisation that retirement incomes products are insufficient and in need of an overhaul....

Financial planning

A review of ASIC's GFC short-selling ban has identified the benefits and the costs - and the fact the regulator would likely do it again....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

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

5 months 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

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

4 weeks 1 day 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...

1 week 4 days ago

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

3 weeks ago